Get Ready South Florida!!

[28_Storms]

POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINFALL SUNDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH MONDAY - per the local MIA office.

[Audrey2Katrina]

Could well be a lot of rain down there; as this thing is pretty sprawled out. But the path seems to keep shifting further and further north.

A2K

[boca]

You should edit the title to Get Ready SW Florida because S Florida includes SE Florida will get widely scattered showers from this. When Charley hit Punta Gorda we were partly sunny here on the east coast.

[leeanninfla]

Yep, I remember the rains that hit Coral Springs when Charley came across. I was dealing with mold in the apartment we had allready, and the rains of 2004 did not help. Couldn't wait to get out of there.

[fci]

I echo Boca.
If this storm, or depression; follows the typical trip up the Gulf, SE Florida will get hardly a shower.
The NWS down here tends to prepare us for a heavy rain event in case the area moves further east then expected; but invariably we get some pick up in winds, some periodic cloud cover and no rain (or very, very little).
I see the same pattern developing with TD 1.

With Charley we got gusts to about 40 and partly cloudy skies.
Even Dennis gave us a squall or two and nothing else but a gust of wind.
With a depression, it will be even less.

Give us West or SW winds aloft on a typical summer day and we get a whole lot more activity then when a storm passes by in the Gulf !

[Eyes2theSkies]

I'm moving to NC at the end of this month. I thought I was going to get out of Florida without getting hit with another storm. That's what I get for thinking!

[Sean in New Orleans]

I'm jealous of the rain. We need it desperately. We are in a once in a generation drought. The drought in New Orleans began over 9 months before Katrina hit, and we've had no really good, soaking, two to three day rain in over 2 years....

[Audrey2Katrina]

While I agree that we could use some rain, what with the levees and canals around here in the shape they're in, AND the pump situations being dubious at best, I'd prefer a frontal shower to a real pounding of rain that could overtax the drainage. We've got enough troubles without that.

A2K