It has its sights on becoming a 90-mph Category 1 hurricane, according to the National Hurricane Center, but is moving northeast and is no threat to the U.S.ĭanielle is only the fourth named storm of the season, but the NHC is watching two other areas with high and low chances of development. Following Danielle on the 2022 hurricane naming list is Earl and Fiona. No named storms in August but Tropical Storm Danielle could become a Cat 1 hurricaneĪugust was also the first since 1997 that saw no named storms in the Atlantic basin, although Tropical Storm Danielle reared up Thursday 960 miles west of the Azores. Rains from Hurricane Irma in 2017 helped push the lake up 3 feet in a month to a 12-year high. 15, and just one soggy tropical tantrum could erase the dry conditions. The National Weather Service in Miami considers the rainy season to be May 15 through Oct. But since, storms have gotten much worseĪ week after Hurricane Michael: Devastating hurricane may signal end of beach townĢ018's Hurricane Michael: 'I trust God.but if anyone has a generator, that would be helpful' Subscriber Exclusive: Hurricane Andrew unleashed fury 30 years ago. “It’s something to keep an eye on, but we are still in the wet season.” “Lake O is not rising as it should this time of year,” Zierden said. The lake was at 14.67 feet above sea level at this time last year. Hitting the management band is not an automatic trigger for restrictions. That’s about 3 inches above something called the water shortage management band, which is a tool used by the South Florida Water Management District to gauge if actions such as water shortage warnings or restrictions are needed. Southwest Florida saw a mostly normal month for rainfall while Tampa, Vero Beach, Fort Pierce, Fort Lauderdale, Miami and Key West showed deficits.Īreas around Lake Okeechobee and to its north were also abnormally dry, meaning lower flows into the lake left it at 12.58 feet above sea level as of Wednesday. 30, West Palm Beach received 14.14 inches of rain, which is an 8.6-inch deficit, but only ranks 21st driest on record. The impacts can really start to show themselves.”īetween June 1 and Aug. “The biggest worry is when you get a below-normal wet season and then go through the prolonged dry season. There is a randomness to it,” Zierden said. “The nature of our rainy season is that some places get hit and some places get missed. It did, with abnormally dry conditions swallowing all of Broward and Miami-Dade counties also.īrevard and Indian River counties were listed Thursday as being in a moderate drought - the first level of drought on the monitor’s four-tier scale. Quiet end to chaos: 2021 hurricane season ends on a whimper, but still busier than normal with one big horrorįlorida climatologist David Zierden said he expected the abnormally dry label, which is bestowed by the National Drought Mitigation Center, to spread in the weekly drought monitor report released Thursday. Newbies and hurricane season: Hurricane season concerns: Influx of newcomers, COVID variants and supply chain issues Queen of climate patterns: What a winter shift to the queen of climate patterns means for Florida Rainfall for August was just 3 inches at the airport, a deficit of more than 5 inches for the month that pushed all of Palm Beach County to become “abnormally dry” during South Florida’s wet season. That’s about 2 degrees warmer than normal and enough to beat the previous August heat record of 85 degrees set in 2016, according to the Southeast Regional Climate Center. Last month knew no days under 90 degrees in West Palm Beach, ending the meteorological summer as the hottest August in the city’s more than a century of records and with a thirst so deep there is concern for what the dry season will bring.Īnemic afternoon thunderstorms along the coast from Melbourne to Miami and an atmosphere too parched to muster a proper tropical cyclone conspired to hike the preliminary mean temperature for the month to 85.6 degrees as measured at Palm Beach International Airport.
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