A mere 24 hours ago, this map was a bright red nearly statewide. Widespread talk of drought relief and an early start to the "rainy season" was on local TV. Blah blah blah. I never bought into the garbage the CPC and WPC put out almost constantly. Today's map confirms that my skepticism was valid. The latest map now reflects reality. I'm convinced we'll still have a drought in portions of Florida once another disappointing rainy season makes a quiet exit.

The month of May finished with ~3.5 inches of rain, slightly lower than average. Disappointing, but not unexpected. The average for June is ~8.7 inches here. We got ~ 0.5 in. yesterday. Thankful for that much at least, as the last few days have been cloudy all day with no payoff.

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The weather forecast for my region has followed the same general pattern for the last four years:

• 48 hours out: 90% chance of rain

• 24 hours out: 50% chance of rain

• Daily: Rain expected to start in 2 hours.

• Daily - 2 hours later: Rain possible this afternoon.

• Daily - late afternoon version 1: Rain possible tomorrow.

• Daily - late afternoon version 2: Rain expected to stop in the at _______ (fill in blank with time half hour later)

  • NOTE: It never started raining. Let me know when it starts and I'll worry about when it stops after that.

If it does break character and rain, then we usually get multiple inches of rain in one go and then it doesn't rain again for 2-4 weeks - unless we have a CFPACS meeting 🤣 . During the no rain stretch, it's unbearably hot (97F-103F, with humidity >= 80%) because we have horizon-to-horizon sun and no cool down from our formerly daily showers.

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Anyway, hope the drought really does break this year. We could use it for all of the stuff recovering from February's visit from old man winter.

May here was about a 30% deficit from average, but even that was enough to help with the drought a little and made a noticeable difference. It continues to cloud up and look like rain a lot of days, with mostly a light sprinkle here and there. The predicted big rain event of the past week turned out to be a big nothing burger.

they have been calling for some rain for days. A lot of nothing has materialized. At least the clouds are reducing the solar heating of my palms. We have had some rain the past few weeks and while the palms and grass look happier, the ponds and canals are still very low.