Itstrainingtime

I did not realize how much rain has fallen in NE Florida until this past Sunday. This will be the 3rd consecutive month that Jacksonville gets roughly a foot of rain or more. They are now over 60" for the year and running about 17" AN to date.

Pregame warmup for a couple of months from now when every county will have some color of shading except for York and Lanco...or more likely, just Lanco.

Some areas getting 5-6"/hour.

Our son in law's parents live right up the road in Palm Coast. Just off 95 on the inland side. (I95 splits Palm Coast in half) We were just talking last week about how flood insurance is double on the ocean side of 95 compared to the west side. That absolutely dictated where they bought years ago.

I admittedly know nothing about tropical systems. I did read commentary in the lead in to Helene that any storm, regardless of intensity is potentially less damaging if it's in a weakening state upon approach vs. a storm that's intensifying at landfall. No idea if a storm that was 185 mph that hits the coast at 145 mph is any better than a 100 mph storm that reaches 120 mph at landfall. I guess at some point the pendulum flips in regards to intensity.

This thing is getting so strong that it's offsetting the anticipated weakening to come.

The good thing is...people are actually leaving. Helene was horrible. Might be one of the few storms that the results were worse than anticipated. It's hard to comprehend from our area just how devastating things are to our south. Bright (extremely relatively speaking) side in it? Because of how graphically bad as Helene was/is, maybe that has/will influence more people to take action going forward. I have to wonder if the mass exodus is in part due to how ominous Milton has become, and also in part to how fresh the catastrophe that Helene was.

2pm Advisory: Milton @ 155 mph.

I still get goosebumps watching that.

I chose my words very carefully.

This bust of a hurricane season is quickly becoming less...busty.

The only play I've seen this morning from the 2nd half was the TD pass. Nothing else. I did see it happened on 4th down.

One thing to watch - will it make landfall on the Yucatan Peninsula? That could not only weaken it but also disrupt the core (storm is small in overall size) to the point that it has a hard time regaining it's mojo. Going to be a very close call today with that. Milt's motion is still a bit SE of E.

Nice win last night, Cowboys fans. Exciting ending that I missed. Dak was clutch when it mattered most.

Just .03" of rain overnight. Current temp is 59. Some fog on my way to work as well.

Apparently he's smarter than those who make these determinations for a living.

I thought that didn't need to be explained. I mean, if we had 45" of rain through the end of June and not a drop thereafter, all talk would be about the epic drought ongoing...but we would be AN for the year.

Made it to 80.3! That's a 34 degree swing today. With the SW breeze going in advance of tonight's front it's a much milder evening than yesterday. Currently 71.

I really wish SC wouldn't have lost yesterday.

This is very true.

I sure do love my Nittany Lions. Not sure they're #4 in the nation though.

77 yesterday afternoon, 46 this morning. Impressive, especially without the benefit of a frontal passage.

Great thing about this time of year - 6:20pm and it's already down to 66.

High today was 77. Going to be a great evening for a campfire.

Nope, Bubbler did indeed post it in our thread yesterday. In fact, it's on the same page as the one that I posted from Accu Chris.