Record Rainfall In Florida, Mammatus Cloud Morning

January Summer Time Flooding In Southeast Florida

Southeast Florida, especially in Palm Beach County, has seen some significant rainfall during the last 48 hours. There has been a stalled old cold front that has been meandering between central Florida and Lake Okeechobee the last day or so, and this has helped focus heavy showers and isolated thunderstorms to train over some of the same locations. Tuesday evening into the overnight hours and on Wednesday, West Pam Beach, Boynton Beach and Boca Raton, FL picked up 3-8 inches of rain just within a few hours. There was widespread street flooding, dozens of cars stalled on flooded roadways, flood waters entering into business and homes, and power outages due to flooded underground power grids. Very impressive rain totals for late January, but Florida will take whatever we can get to get our water tables back to a normal level due to drought.

Orlando also set a daily rainfall record from the large Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) that developed over the Gulf of Mexico early Wednesday morning and came ashore the west coast of Florida and brought widespread heavy rains to central Florida.

THE LATE NIGHT AND EARLY MORNING RAINFALL OF 2.38 INCHES AT ORLANDO SETS A NEW RECORD FOR THIS DATE. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 1.60 SET IN 1963.

As I was leaving yesterday morning to hit the road, I was greeted with a sunrise sky full of backlit mammatus, as seen in the picture above. I really wish I has the time to shoot a full time lapse of the mammatus and outflow boundaries racing southward. It really made my morning…

Turning Cooler After Stubborn Front Moves Through

More rain expected today, but more isolated and likely more showers than any storms are possible later this afternoon ahead of the stubborn cold front. Waiting for the very dense fog to burn off, so some heating can take place, but the front might move through before the fog complexly burns off. I’ll be monitoring just in case anything gets going worth heading out for either to satisfy my need for storm, or weather video to pitch.