Need help finding

[chadtm80]

A rain deficit info for Florida.. Would really like a map that reflects it as well

[jasons2k]

Here are some links that may help:

http://flame.fl-dof.com/fire_weather/KBDI/index.html

http://www.fl-dof.com/fire_weather/fore ... nfall.html

Sorry, I can't find one explicity for rainfall deficts...

[CajunMama]

This one may help you too but jschlitz's shows the counties and may be more what you're looking for.

http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/DM_southeast.htm

[HarlequinBoy]

You can use this site to find departure from normals for a variety of dates:

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/rfcshare/precip_analysis_new.php

[O Town]

That second link jschlitz is great. I saved that one.

http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html

[TampaSteve]

Thanks for the links!

[Jagno]

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]

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]

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.

I thought the exact same thing when I saw it posted in another thread a couple of days ago. I don't know how they got that information, but there's nothing abnormally dry about the saturated grounds we've had for what seems like forever.

[southerngale]

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.

[TampaSteve]

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.

Heh...consider yourself lucky...the whole freaking state of Florida was burning up until a few weeks ago!