Need help finding
Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 2:03 pm
A rain deficit info for Florida.. Would really like a map that reflects it as well
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Jagno wrote:Hmmmmmmm, I'm sorry but I'm having a hard time believing the Drought Monitor. It says that we are "abnormally dry" here in SW Louisiana. We can't take anymore rain. The rain has been persistent and heavy every single day for weeks.
Jagno wrote:Hmmmmmmm, I'm sorry but I'm having a hard time believing the Drought Monitor. It says that we are "abnormally dry" here in SW Louisiana. We can't take anymore rain. The rain has been persistent and heavy every single day for weeks.
TampaSteve wrote:Jagno wrote:Hmmmmmmm, I'm sorry but I'm having a hard time believing the Drought Monitor. It says that we are "abnormally dry" here in SW Louisiana. We can't take anymore rain. The rain has been persistent and heavy every single day for weeks.
You can have a period of heavy rain, but still be in an overall drought. If your drought is severe, it usually takes a tropical system or two, or many weeks of wetter weather to really break it.
southerngale wrote:TampaSteve wrote:Jagno wrote:Hmmmmmmm, I'm sorry but I'm having a hard time believing the Drought Monitor. It says that we are "abnormally dry" here in SW Louisiana. We can't take anymore rain. The rain has been persistent and heavy every single day for weeks.
You can have a period of heavy rain, but still be in an overall drought. If your drought is severe, it usually takes a tropical system or two, or many weeks of wetter weather to really break it.
True, but it hasn't been a "period" of rain. We haven't been in anything that even resembles a drought since the spring of 2006. The drought was bad here last spring, then on Memorial Day, well, that weekend, we had a pretty significant rain event, which caused flooding. That was followed by a very wet summer, fall, winter, spring, and now summer, with several flooding events thrown in there, one of them the worst since 1994. It's been kinda crazy wet around here... absolutely not abnormally dry, unless they sampled the 6 block radius that received less.
I think sometime in April or May, we went a couple of weeks without rain, but other than that, rain has been a frequent expectation for the past year or so.