I guess it has been decided that we don't get rain anymore. Its been a couple weeks for me since I've seen a drop. Ergg...

NWS MELBOURNE Wx Discussion from today:

As has been the case for the past several days, most locations
along the immediate coast will remain dry with increasing shower
and storm chances west of I-95. A few showers/storms will try to approach
the coast early this afternoon after they initially develop and
tap the light NW flow around 700mb...however, coverage will focus
across the interior by mid afternoon. Will keep highest precip
chances (40-50%) across the interior (Lake/Orange/Osceola/Okeechobee)
as boundary interactions increase late this afternoon. Occasional
to frequent cloud-to-ground lightning strikes remains the primary
hazard from this afternoon`s storms. Stout easterly flow in the
upper levels will blow any anvil debris / cloud cover from this
afternoon`s storms toward the west.

Our house is on the sugar sand ridge immediately west of the river. I have been battling these mini-doughts since we moved down here in 2013. I think that we went the entire month of August without measurable rain in 2013 while Deadland/Sanford/Orlando got drowned.

Five days without rain and the lawn is stressed on our excessively drained astatula unit soils. I think I'm just going to let the St. Augustine die this time once and for good. It is already angry that I won't fertilize, herbicide, or kill the chinch bugs.

Seems a typical weather feature of coastal Brevard to have mini-droughts when the summer high pressure sets in and sea breeze collision along the I4 corridor dominates diurnal convection and there's no steering current to push the storms back this way in the evening.

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I'm finally getting some nice rain here. I hope some of you other gardeners are, too.

I hear rain coming down tonight....once again proving that complaining about the lack of rain on this forum helps bring rain...(hoping I just didn't hex it)...

I can usually make it rain by running my irrigation system. LOL.

Please run you sprinkler system, leave the car windows down, along with washing/waxing it, hang dry your clothes outside, plan a picnic...LOL

Turns out I just got a trace of rain last night...Not enough...

from this morning's NWS MELBOURNE Wx discussion:

Tonight...Should see scattered showers/storms across the interior in
the evening with SW steering flow brining storms back toward the
east coast into the late evening and toward midnight. Will keep pops
in the high scattered range most areas.


"Local wind and moisture profile points to a slightly more active day
with more active local boundaries, translating to a slightly earlier
onset time for precip across most areas. Pattern favors the central/
eastern peninsula for highest pops, and the current gridded forecast
is right on top of that line of thinking."

You guys are supposed to get evening storms tomorrow. Everything looks to build around the East side of Orlando and push off the coast. At least that's what the future track showed.

skunked again.

0.2" last night and not a drop today. That 0.2" evaporated by 10AM in the blazing June sun.

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Got a little at the house in N Sat beach today, but got dumped on for 40 mins at the office in palm bay/west melbourne area. 

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I got about an half-inch to inch of rain today. Stoked.

ok, I guess this mini-drought is over...(hoping I just didn't curse it)


...Higher coverage of showers and storms expected into the holiday
weekend...

Still dry here in Merritt Island. Maybe tonight. I call it the "Sykes Creek pocket" curse.

Ouch. really no rain? My little dry pocket South M.I. I call "The Black Hole" as when I look at the doplar radar their is a black hole over my house of no rain. However, that was a few years ago and really thought there was some kind of ancient Indian curse. But, the past year I've been getting pretty good chunks of rain. Must have been that voodoo doll and eyes-of-newt soup that moved the curse over Sykes Creek...Sorry!

Ormond Beach got a quarter inch yesterday and it is intermittently raining now.

ofdphil, please tell me you got yesterday's flooding rain. I got about 4 or 5 inches!

I did! Rain gauge said about 4 inches. Pool is full and grass is happy....for now. I don't like this fest or famine though.

We got utterly shafted in northeast Rockledge this week. Totalled 0.6" in the gauge. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday the storms formed right over us and I watched them dump all their rain a mile away over on MI.

Friday when I got home from work I could literally sit at the end of my street with out a drop hitting me but I couldn't see the other side of the river.

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Ouch. Sorry! Suppose to dry out the next few days. All my rain buckets/ponds are full.

uggh...


National Weather Service Melbourne FL
241 PM EDT WED JUL 6 2016

.DISCUSSION...

...Lower Than Normal Storm Coverage and Hot and Humid Conditions
Continuing Through the Upcoming Weekend...