Florida Rainfall: Nuisance or Beneficial?

The dry time has been a little hard to enjoy the last week or two in Florida. While this is the rainy season, and we're making up for a slow start to it, you can still roll your eyes at what the extended forecasts have looked like recently.

Here's what can happen in simply a matter of half an hour in Florida with a pattern like this:

So why? Just because Florida likes to have the most fun? Well, actually it's the front that's keeping the storms around. We could show a similar setup for most of the past week or two, with a slow-moving boundary in the area.

That along with a TON of moisture to work with is attempting to catch up some drought-stricken areas of the Sunshine State. The Drought Monitor updated on Thursday and had some pretty sizeable improvements in South Florida.

So while it might be easy to complain about beach plans constantly getting ruined, it has its benefits. Our biggest concern is the lightning threat associated with any Florida thunderstorm, but especially this time of year, with people outdoors. Anytime it rains this heavily, of course the flash flooding threat will be there as well. Some areas could receive another 3-5 inches before the rain chances start to back off next week.