Atlantic storms often are "fish storms". The ones in the Gulf are hard to be a fish storm. Next week the people from Texas to the Panhandle should be watching for any tropical low. Whatever that low comes out to be, someone's liable to get a lot of rain just like Florida these next few days.
I feel for them. Some friends along the Trinity River in Texas have already had one major flood this year. for some reason most of the rain showers seem to be gong both north around Sarasota and south of me so I've only got near 4 inches so far.
4 inches in the last couple of days? It's still a lot of rain even over a few days, but imagine close to 4 inches an hour; that is what Sarasota had yesterday during a brief but extremely heavy cloudburst. You would not have liked THAT. Watch out for any freak cloudbursts near you. You never know when one of those freaky ones may hit, just like Sarasota. So far, not much lightning with these storms except the upper Keys tonight. Nothing on the web cams last night.
Fortunately for me I am on higher ground than a lot of Florida so we haven't had any problem with storm surge during hurricanes and none with flooding as it tends to run quickly down into the Peace River and out through Charlotte Harbor to the Gulf. Also helps having sandy soil. I think downtown had about 16" during one tropical storm as they left a marker on the wall in the Celtic Ray from it. The only one so far. Charley, Irma and Ian didn't cause a problem with flooding like they got in Ft Myers and Sarasota.
That was due to the 7 or 8-plus feet of storm surge that reached just about the top of a webcam that recorded it. Rainfall expectancies COULD reach 2 FEET in SE Fla. by the time the event ends this weekend before attention shifts to the Gulf states and Texas. Either a named storm or a tropical-like low will bring similar rainstorms next week to those areas.
I sincerely hope that any hurricane this year remains a fish storm.
Me too 🌺
Atlantic storms often are "fish storms". The ones in the Gulf are hard to be a fish storm. Next week the people from Texas to the Panhandle should be watching for any tropical low. Whatever that low comes out to be, someone's liable to get a lot of rain just like Florida these next few days.
I feel for them. Some friends along the Trinity River in Texas have already had one major flood this year. for some reason most of the rain showers seem to be gong both north around Sarasota and south of me so I've only got near 4 inches so far.
4 inches in the last couple of days? It's still a lot of rain even over a few days, but imagine close to 4 inches an hour; that is what Sarasota had yesterday during a brief but extremely heavy cloudburst. You would not have liked THAT. Watch out for any freak cloudbursts near you. You never know when one of those freaky ones may hit, just like Sarasota. So far, not much lightning with these storms except the upper Keys tonight. Nothing on the web cams last night.
Fortunately for me I am on higher ground than a lot of Florida so we haven't had any problem with storm surge during hurricanes and none with flooding as it tends to run quickly down into the Peace River and out through Charlotte Harbor to the Gulf. Also helps having sandy soil. I think downtown had about 16" during one tropical storm as they left a marker on the wall in the Celtic Ray from it. The only one so far. Charley, Irma and Ian didn't cause a problem with flooding like they got in Ft Myers and Sarasota.
That was due to the 7 or 8-plus feet of storm surge that reached just about the top of a webcam that recorded it. Rainfall expectancies COULD reach 2 FEET in SE Fla. by the time the event ends this weekend before attention shifts to the Gulf states and Texas. Either a named storm or a tropical-like low will bring similar rainstorms next week to those areas.