Drought continues for Florida

[boca]

The rainy season really can't get going when we have these troughs coming thru and cleaning us out. The Everglades is on fire and blowing the sult on the cars in the morning. We really need a depression to hit Florida to get us out of this sluggish start to rainy season. We had a few episodes of rain but nothing close to normal. June in S FL rainfall should be 9" lets see what happens this month. By the way this is suppossed to be our rainiest month.

[stpeteweathergal]

As much as we don't want any major storms....it sure would be nice to have a little tropical rain to soak the ground. They said Pinellas county was red flag today for fire warning.

[Hurricane_chaser092580]

Agreed here in Seminole county we got some rain last night but hasnt been much in June so far, no where near normal.

[boca]

Looks like Puerto Rico is sharing what the sunshine state is doing on the drought.

.HYDROLOGY...PRELIMINARY PALMER DROUGHT INDICES SUGGEST THAT
SEVERAL AREAS OF PUERTO RICO ARE EXPERIENCING ABNORMALLY DRY
WEATHER CONDITIONS. SPECIFICALLY THE NORTH COASTAL AREA...THE
SOUTHERN SLOPES AND WESTERN INTERIOR ARE EXPERIENCING CONDITIONS
THAT ARE APPROACHING A MODERATE DROUGHT...ACCORDING TO THE INDEX.
RAINFALL AMOUNTS AT SAN JUAN ARE MORE THAN ONE HALF INCH BELOW
NORMAL SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE MONTH AND ALMOST 3 INCHES BELOW
NORMAL SINCE MAY 1...WHICH IS EATING AWAY AT THE ANNUAL
SURPLUS...TO DATE...OF OVER 5 INCHES. THIS DRIER WEATHER IS EXPECTED
TO CONTINUE THROUGH AT LEAST SUNDAY.

[yzerfan]

Panhandle's not even gotten half the normal amount of rain, and there's nothing more in sight. I could go for a nice sluggish depression dumping some rain down in order to cut down on the number of minor wildfires we've been getting.

[jdray]

http://www.fl-dof.com/fire_weather/KBDI/
http://www.weather.gov/alerts/fl.html

Lots of red flag and fire weather watch warnings.

[boca]

Is La Nina still present because that would expain the drought or is it neutral now.

[LarryWx]

Is La Nina still present because that would expain the drought or is it neutral now.

Neutral

[Patrick99]

Yeah, all this dry air is odd for June. Seems like we usually have a SW flow in June, not a N-NW flow like we have been seeing.

Convection *has* been popping in my area on the sea breeze, but amounts have been limited...it'll shower somewhat violently for 10 minutes, then clear out for the rest of the day. Let's see what happens today......Miami AFD makes mention of possibility for severe thunderstorms, hail.

Don't see any hints of anything trying to build yet.....that sky doesn't look like a Miami sky, it looks like a Utah high desert sky.

[Scorpion]

Got some massive rains here last night. At least an inch.

[Stratusxpeye]

Have less than 20% chance of precip through sun here in my area. And that 20% is only on 2 days of the week. I wonder how long this will continue.

[CHRISTY]

dry weather is forcast for us in the southeast for the next 2 days then showers will be back in the forcast later on in the week.

[HurricaneHunter914]

Hopefully some tropical depression the size of Texas will hit Florida bringing over 10 inches of rain.

[gboudx]

Hopefully some tropical depression the size of Texas will hit Florida bringing over 10 inches of rain.

If it's the size of Texas, then it might as well visit to verify. Especially North Central TX.

[Aquawind]

Certainly is dry as were ~8" below. The rainy season needs to pick up the pace! Nothing to promising other than E- SE winds.. Hopefully payback isn't a 24" hurricane..

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/productview.php ... &version=0

SUNDAY LOOKS TO BE A
TRANSITION DAY AS THE UPPER TROUGH LIFTS OUT AND RIDGING BUILDS OVER
THE GULF...WHILE AT THE SFC HIGH PRESSURE BEHIND THE REMNANT
BOUNDARY MERGES WITH THE HIGH OVER THE ATLANTIC AND SHIFTS THE RIDGE
AXIS OVER THE STATE NORTHWARD. WILL SEE WINDS SHIFT TO THE E/SE AND
ALLOW AN AFTERNOON SEABREEZE TO DEVELOP. MOISTURE SHOULD STILL BE
LIMITED ENOUGH TO KEEP POPS AT 20 PERCENT...BUT WILL HAVE THAT
CHANCE EVERYWHERE. THE UPPER RIDGE THEN SHIFTS EAST ACROSS THE SE US
TO OVER THE ATLANTIC FOR MONDAY AND TUESDAY PROVIDING SOME
SUBSIDENCE ACROSS THE AREA...BUT INCREASING LL MOISTURE AND
CONTINUED E/SE FLOW WITH AFTERNOON SEABREEZES WILL ALLOW FOR
SLIGHTLY HIGHER POPS WITH 20 PERCENT NORTH AND CENTRAL COASTAL AND
30 PERCENT INLAND AND SOUTH FOR MONDAY. TUESDAY WILL HAVE GENERALLY
30 PERCENT EVERYWHERE AS THE UPPER RIDGE SHIFTS FURTHER EAST AWAY
FROM THE AREA. TEMPS TO STAY A COUPLE OF DEGREES ON THE WARM SIDE OF
NORMAL WITH HIGHS GENERALLY IN THE LOWER T0 MID 90S AND LOWS IN THE
UPPER 60S NORTH TO MID 70S NEAR THE COAST.

[Matt-hurricanewatcher]

No ifs its the size of texas it will likelly be a hurricane

[Patrick99]

Not gonna have any severe weather today, it seems. Can't even muster many clouds.

[Patrick99]

Has the rainy season even truly started yet? We've had a few days with somewhat brief rain since Memorial Day.....nothing systematic, nothing to "time your watch" by. Have we even settled into the typical rainy season pattern? It doesn't seem so, to my eye.