Lake Okeechobee Heavy Rains Return 

Yesterday not only brought funnels over the mainland and water spouts in the Tampa Bay area and Florida Keys, but also brought much needed rainfall over Lake Okeechobee where it is so desperately needed. The Florida drought of 2007 has dropped the lake level to below 9 Feet when it should be around 15 feet this time of year. Nice tropical heavy rains as seen in the picture above moved over the lake for several hours, dumping several inches of rain. In the storm photo above, you can see a nice heavy rain core with a rain-foot feature, along with rain curtains over Lake Okeechobee near Port Mayaca, Florida.

Lake Okeechobee Tropical Rains help with Florida DroughtThe current tropical wave moving in over Florida today, is expected to bring another 2-3 inches of rain to some lucky locations through Friday night. As of this morning, a large area of heavy to moderate rains were getting ready to move onshore from the Atlantic over South Florida. Planning for some embedded thunderstorms as well later today and would not be surprised to see some more waterspout reports not only from the normal Florida Keys and offshore waters of Florida, but even maybe one or two from Lake Okeechobee waters. It’s good to see the rains have returned and maybe we can get this lake back to it’s normal self by the winter months, and keep all these Florida wildfires from staring again.

I have some video editing to do for a client, but I plan to head out for some lightning and Florida style convection late this afternoon and evening.

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