Lake Okeechobee: Lake-O is back to normal mode

[boca]

By May the lake level should be between 9 and 10 ft the way its dropping now.It won't get as far as 8.97 ft, but its like Fay was the only rain event. Lets hope we get something between now amd May 15th the start of rainy season. If it doesn't rain thats 75 more days of the lake dropping 2.4 inches per week.

[Sanibel]

I notice our pond is dropping. If this keeps up it will be at serious drought level before May.


Maybe this is the year for Florida?

[jinftl]

Moderate Drought conditions surrounding the Lake....need to watch to see if growing area of Severe Drought conditions expands to encompass it.

[DESTRUCTION5]

If I were a betting man and was guessing where Mother Nature needed to put a storm with large amounts of rainfall..SE FL would be where my $$ would be..

[jinftl]

Lake O down to 12.54 feet....down 0.27' feet or over 3" in the last 10 days (12.81 feet on 2/28).

http://my.sfwmd.gov/sfwmd/common/images ... .OKEE.html

[Ed Mahmoud]

Just visiting, but what happened to all the rain from Fay last summer?

0Z GFS shows a bit of rain next week in the watershed, but nothing major.

[jinftl]

The area around Lake O got a healthy shot in the arm from Fay but missed the bullseye that some areas to the north and east saw. Map of estimated Fay rain totals:




The problem has been that since then, rainfall has been anemic....month after month of rainfall totals under 1". Granted, we are in our 'dry season' but that term means something very different in florida than it does in locations in the western u.s....for florida, dry season means an average of 2" rain/month or so....not going on 5 months in a row under 1". The departures from normal since Fay have undone any good she did in terms of rain.

This is a scary looking KBDI map....with the bullseye being around the Lake...

Just visiting, but what happened to all the rain from Fay last summer?

0Z GFS shows a bit of rain next week in the watershed, but nothing major.

[DESTRUCTION5]

It did not help that they DRAINED the lake as soon as it was filled up natrually...

[boca]

Lake O is down to 12.47ft as of March 13th.I'm not realistically expecting any rain down here till the end of May or June because of the persistent La Nina pattern where in.By May Lake O will most likely be down to 9 or 10 ft the way its dropping now.


http://www.sfwmd.gov/portal/page?_pagei ... ema=PORTAL

[jinftl]

12.43 feet as of 3/14/09
http://my.sfwmd.gov/gisapps/losac/sfwmd.asp

[HURAKAN]

12.37 feet as of 3/21/09
http://my.sfwmd.gov/gisapps/losac/sfwmd.asp

The recent rainfall has slowed down the decrease of the water level.

[jinftl]

Down to 12.32 ft as of 3/24
http://my.sfwmd.gov/sfwmd/common/images ... .OKEE.html

[SaskatchewanScreamer]

Build a pipeline quick and get some water from North Dakota....... that State has more than enough to spare http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7963490.stm (southern Manitoba would be grateful for your efforts too).

[brunota2003]

BTW, those in the Orlando area that received rainfall on Sunday...You're welcome, I brought it with me from NC when I visited =]

[jinftl]

Down to 12.27 feet as of 3/26

http://my.sfwmd.gov/sfwmd/common/images ... .OKEE.html

[HURAKAN]

Nearing 12 feet.

[jinftl]

11.93 feet as of 4/7/09
http://my.sfwmd.gov/sfwmd/common/images ... .OKEE.html

[jinftl]

11.90 ft...approaching Water Shortage Management level (black line on graph)
http://my.sfwmd.gov/sfwmd/common/images ... .OKEE.html

Nearing 12 feet.

[jinftl]

Down to 11.81 feet as of 4/12/09.
http://my.sfwmd.gov/sfwmd/common/images ... .OKEE.html

[Ed Mahmoud]

Raining in the Kissimee River watershed...