6/30/2023 0 Comments Rain totals green bayBesides, it's still raining out here… Other weather tidbits from the week: So sorry Florida, your rain is home-grown. If I get the first 50 pounds "free" that's only about, oh, $6.2 billion in overweight luggage fees. Some quick calculations show it'd take over 630,000 Boeing 747 cargo jets to deliver 30 inches of rain to all of Fort Lauderdale. That's more rain than Seattle saw in all of 2019!Īnd no, I didn't bring the rain with me from Seattle. Fort Lauderdale is now up to just under 35 inches of rain since April 9. It's possible enough of that fell over a 24-hour period to set the Florida state record for 24-hour rainfall at 23.28 inches, but it'll be up to NOAA's State Climate Extremes Committee to accept whether this gauge's measurements from the storm conform to the high standards of official data.īut the storms kept coming. Some of the rainfall rates recorded were 0.18 inches per minute which works out to about 0.01 inches of rain every 3 seconds! A town in the Atacama Desert in Chile once went 17 years without even that little morsel of rain. The area received 20.42 inches in one day (April 13) and 26.97 inches over a two-day period. However, a nearby rain gauge provided by WeatherSTEM did function through the event and recorded incredible rainfall accumulations! Just stubborn thunderstorms.įort Lauderdale's official rain gauge at the airport was already having issues before the big storm, but then the area around the weather station flooded, according to the National Weather Service so we may have lost the official measurement. But how much rain fell amazes me to this day, especially when you consider it wasn't at the hand of a hurricane or tropical storm. That building in the foreground is NOAA's Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma.ĭrone video of downtown Fort Lauderdale captures extent of floodingĭrone video of downtown Fort Lauderdale shows countless cars trapped in high water after the city experienced extreme flooding on Wednesday.Īs you may have heard, thunderstorms just parked over the town, delivering rain measured in feet instead of inches and causing widespread flooding. But this ominous supercell thunderstorm that came right to the doorstep of those tasked with tracking their developments. Speaking of Oklahoma supercells, most of the time national weather forecasters sit at their computers and forecast the weather for someone else. "The stronger spin 'wins' the battle, and eventually either pulls the smaller spin into it, or the smaller spin dissipates or swings off in a direction outside the main spin of both." That's no moon "This is more common with hurricanes, but it can happen on a small scale, such as tornadoes," said FOX Weather Meteorologist Jordan Overton. The phenomenon is known as the Fujiwhara Effect and can be seen when two cyclonic systems drift near each other. Second jaw-dropper: As the cluster of supercells moved toward Shawnee, Oklahoma, two areas of rotation began spinning around each other, like two figure skaters going in for a hug. Doppler radar analysis of a tornado that swept through Oklahoma on April 19, 2023.
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