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there are 3 areas that have been inundated during this event: the Cedar Key area in Levy County, Western Pasco, Northwestern Hillsborough County and Northern Pinellas County in the Tampa Bay area and portions of Lee and Collier counties in SW Florida. Many of these areas have received at least 8" and some have received far more.
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If the Miami discussion is right for upcoming weekend. You going to get more rain.
The persistent southwesterly
surface flow will also back to the south and southeast Saturday
and Sunday. The midlevel trough may deepen to a point that late
weekend or early next week, surface low pressure may once again
drop into the eastern Gulf, perhaps spreading persistent rainfall
along the West Coast again.
The persistent southwesterly
surface flow will also back to the south and southeast Saturday
and Sunday. The midlevel trough may deepen to a point that late
weekend or early next week, surface low pressure may once again
drop into the eastern Gulf, perhaps spreading persistent rainfall
along the West Coast again.
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Hasn't happened yet and now doesn't look like it will. We've had W-SW flow for a whole week and yet no real rain. Something just isn't right with this area, this year.
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Finally we are getting a torrential downpour in Boca Raton. I mean it is coming down about as hard as you will see it. We have had a handful of these types of events this summer. It seems it is all or nothing. We get a ton of rain all at once (enough to cause flooding) then nothing for weeks. 

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gatorcane wrote:Finally we are getting a torrential downpour in Boca Raton. I mean it is coming down about as hard as you will see it. We have had a handful of these types of events this summer. It seems it is all or nothing. We get a ton of rain all at once (enough to cause flooding) then nothing for weeks.
Up here in Palm Beach Gardens we got hammered! And I mean literally!
We had a Severe Thunderstorm that lasted till about 5:30pm and there was torrential rains, excessive lightning, and very very gusty winds in excess of probably 50mph. It felt like I was in a hurricane for several minutes it was that bad! Haven't seen a thunderstorm this bad in forever.
It's surprising and can catch you off guard how a typical even severe thunderstorm in the afternoon during the summer can cause more issues than a minimal/moderate TS can in some cases. Take TS Bonnie(2010) for example, what a dud that was! I'm just still amazed and shocked at today's storms along with the fact we picked up probably around 2-3 inches of rain.

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Another rainy day for the FL peninsula this is almost like a monsoonal pattern, no real change in the pattern any time soon, perhaps a change in the 10-14 day range but unfortunately not much change for the waterlogged west coast of FL if an east wind pattern comes back in.
BTW, July ended up proving to its name of being the wettest month on average annually. Area rainfall totals for the Orlando area ended in the 6"-12" range.
BTW, July ended up proving to its name of being the wettest month on average annually. Area rainfall totals for the Orlando area ended in the 6"-12" range.
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TheStormExpert wrote:gatorcane wrote:Finally we are getting a torrential downpour in Boca Raton. I mean it is coming down about as hard as you will see it. We have had a handful of these types of events this summer. It seems it is all or nothing. We get a ton of rain all at once (enough to cause flooding) then nothing for weeks.
Up here in Palm Beach Gardens we got hammered! And I mean literally!
We had a Severe Thunderstorm that lasted till about 5:30pm and there was torrential rains, excessive lightning, and very very gusty winds in excess of probably 50mph. It felt like I was in a hurricane for several minutes it was that bad! Haven't seen a thunderstorm this bad in forever.
It's surprising and can catch you off guard how a typical even severe thunderstorm in the afternoon during the summer can cause more issues than a minimal/moderate TS can in some cases. Take TS Bonnie(2010) for example, what a dud that was! I'm just still amazed and shocked at today's storms along with the fact we picked up probably around 2-3 inches of rain.
That storm yesterday was really something. I am a couple miles north of you, and the winds were just screaming out of the south. Not a typical gust front either - the strongest winds kept up for a good 20-30 minutes before simmering down to "normal" thunderstorm breezes.
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Another big rain event occuring today across the Big Bend region south down the coast to the Tampa Bay region. Flood watches still up through the the rest of this evening for these areas as a Low pressure wave inland of the Florida Eastern Big Bend region is bring torrential rains into Dixie and Levy counties. NWS WFO in Tallahassee indicated radar estimates of 7 to 11 inches of rainfall has already occured the past 24 hours in Dixie county. Heavy rains expected to continue across that entire region as the storms are just not moving at all. Very weak steering flow in place.
Heavy rains also occuring down across the west-central portions of the peninsula again today. The trough axis is just stuck in that region, as has been the case all week long, converging that moisture on that south-southwest flow along the trough axis into this region. Checked rainfall reports across the region and nearly 3 inches of rain has fallen today in and around the Tampa metro area. At the time of this typing of this post, NWS WFO in Ruskin just issued Flood warnings for urban flooding across Hillsborough county.
It's really water-logged down in these areas and it just dose not look like and end in sight for at least a couple of more days.
NWS Radar out of Ruskin tells the story. Look at that large area of rain and deep moisture plume streaming in from the Eastern GOM right into the west-central peninsula.

Heavy rains also occuring down across the west-central portions of the peninsula again today. The trough axis is just stuck in that region, as has been the case all week long, converging that moisture on that south-southwest flow along the trough axis into this region. Checked rainfall reports across the region and nearly 3 inches of rain has fallen today in and around the Tampa metro area. At the time of this typing of this post, NWS WFO in Ruskin just issued Flood warnings for urban flooding across Hillsborough county.
It's really water-logged down in these areas and it just dose not look like and end in sight for at least a couple of more days.
NWS Radar out of Ruskin tells the story. Look at that large area of rain and deep moisture plume streaming in from the Eastern GOM right into the west-central peninsula.

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line of storms building and heading towards Pinellas/Pasco. More rain to an area that does not need anymore rain.
http://www.baynews9.com/content/news/ba ... radar.html
http://www.baynews9.com/content/news/ba ... radar.html
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I reside near the southern border of the "white" zone on NDG's map. what's really amazing about it is we had very little rain in July until a 5" dumping on Friday July 17. In fact, we had brown grass around here, something I've never seen in July until this year. that 20" of rain for the month took place during the last 2 weeks. And another tidbit for this waterlogged area...August is our wettest month and we've already received our normal rainfall for the month. Our coastline was dented during this event, at least at honeymoon island. most of the island was submerged and erosion is extensive with 3-5' of sand loss common. the beach is mostly gone and the sea has chewed into the dunes. it is downright shocking. But today the sun is back out and it's beautiful. we're on the mend.
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How quickly things have turned around in Florida! 1997 Danny did something like this albeit more towards the Panhandle. Was there a drought going on before July of that year?
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Ntxw wrote:How quickly things have turned around in Florida! 1997 Danny did something like this albeit more towards the Panhandle. Was there a drought going on before July of that year?
Yes, looking at the Tampa climate history for 1997, up until July '97 Tampa only had recorded only 17" of rain compared to 27" this year.
July of '97 Tampa only had 5.59", 8.2" August and 12.83" in September.
So by far this has been a wetter summer for the Tampa area compared to '97.
In the other hand SE FL had a much wetter summer back in '97 compared to this year, I blame the persistent dry easterly winds in SE FL for much of May & June this year.
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Yeah, that line came through here at my home between 4 and 4:30 this afternoon and dumped nearly 1.5 inches in 15 minutes time. Fortunately, that line moved though at a good pace to the south and southesst or else the rain amounts would have been more for sure.
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well we can already see a subtle change...the sun angle is getting lower and as we head into sept the edge will slowly come off of summer. the worst is certainly over.. central fl climo shows a distinct drying in sept even before the first cold front which is usually around oct 10. I'm looking forward to mountain biking at Alafia river state park. my last outing there was in early May. in the meantime I'll continue to enjoy the beaches and pool. Summer in FL is like Winter in MN...you just have to embrace it and find ways to make it work. I'd rather be hot than frozen.
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