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Re: Lake Okeechobee: Water level decreasing rapidly
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 10:36 am
by 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.
Re: Lake Okeechobee: Water level decreasing rapidly
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 1:15 pm
by 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?
Re: Lake Okeechobee: Water level decreasing rapidly
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 2:18 pm
by jinftl
Moderate Drought conditions surrounding the Lake....need to watch to see if growing area of Severe Drought conditions expands to encompass it.
![Image](http://drought.unl.edu/dm/pics/fl_dm.png)
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 2:23 pm
by 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..
Re: Lake Okeechobee: Water level decreasing rapidly
Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 4:03 pm
by 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
Re: Lake Okeechobee: Water level decreasing rapidly
Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 9:49 am
by 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.
Re: Lake Okeechobee: Water level decreasing rapidly
Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 10:06 am
by 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:
![Image](http://www.synthstuff.com/mt/archives/2008/florida-fay-7dayrains.jpg)
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...
![Image](http://flame.fl-dof.com/fire_weather/images/kbdi-detail-state.png)
Ed Mahmoud wrote: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.
Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:13 am
by DESTRUCTION5
Re: Lake Okeechobee: Water level decreasing rapidly
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:26 am
by 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
Re: Lake Okeechobee: Water level decreasing rapidly
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 3:00 pm
by jinftl
Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 12:47 pm
by HURAKAN
12.37 feet as of 3/21/09
http://my.sfwmd.gov/gisapps/losac/sfwmd.aspThe recent rainfall has slowed down the decrease of the water level.
Re: Lake Okeechobee: Water level decreasing rapidly
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:01 am
by jinftl
Re: Lake Okeechobee: Water level decreasing rapidly
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:24 am
by 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).
Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 6:53 pm
by 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 =]
Re: Lake Okeechobee: Water level decreasing rapidly
Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 8:50 am
by jinftl
Re: Lake Okeechobee: Water level decreasing rapidly
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 7:32 am
by HURAKAN
![Image](http://www.saj.usace.army.mil/h2o/plots/okehp.gif)
Nearing 12 feet.
Re: Lake Okeechobee: Water level decreasing rapidly
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 1:25 pm
by jinftl
Re: Lake Okeechobee: Water level decreasing rapidly
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 10:33 am
by jinftl
11.90 ft...approaching Water Shortage Management level (black line on graph)
http://my.sfwmd.gov/sfwmd/common/images ... .OKEE.htmlHURAKAN wrote:![Image](http://www.saj.usace.army.mil/h2o/plots/okehp.gif)
Nearing 12 feet.
Re: Lake Okeechobee: Water level decreasing rapidly
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 11:22 am
by jinftl
Re: Lake Okeechobee: Water level decreasing rapidly
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 3:36 pm
by Ed Mahmoud
Raining in the Kissimee River watershed...
![Image](http://radblast-mi.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/radar/WUNIDS_map?station=MLB&brand=wui&num=6&delay=15&type=N0R&frame=0&scale=1.000&noclutter=0&t=1236605619&lat=0&lon=0&label=you&showstorms=0&map.x=400&map.y=240¢erx=400¢ery=240&transx=0&transy=0&showlabels=1&severe=0&rainsnow=0&lightning=0&smooth=0)