My how things have changed!
Drought hasn’t vanished completely, but we’re finally heading in the right direction.
It’s all the result of a weather pattern that’s been giving us levels of rain we haven’t seen since September of last year (you may remember we had a certain hurricane that month).
Average rainfall in the month of May is between 2.5 to 3.25 inches.
We are meeting or exceeding those numbers in just the past week.
That’s a lot of water!
In fact, many weather stations in Southwest Florida are in the top 10 for recorded rainfall for the past 7 days (May 13 – 19) according to the NOAA Southeast Regional Climate Center.
Southwest Florida has only cracked the top 25 of May record rain.
Moisture continues to funnel out of the tropics directly over Florida and is expected to do so until at least next weekend.
DeSoto County picked up the first flood warning of the season on Sunday.