Hurricane Season Starts Tomorrow (June 1, 2022)
The 2022 Atlantic Hurricane season starts tomorrow (June 1) and runs (officially) through November 30. The south Florida rainy season has already started and runs roughly through the end of October. You know what I’ll be talking about for the next 5-6 months (LOL)!
Today and tomorrow, it’s locally heavy rainfall associated with lots of showers and thunderstorms, mostly in the afternoon and early evening. The National Weather Service (NWS) is forecasting the heaviest rainfall to fall over southeast Florida (Fig. 1). Note, that during the past two days, there have been severe thunderstorm wind gusts and a few reports of hail across the central and northern peninsula parts of the state.
Agatha, once an Eastern Pacific hurricane, has made landfall in southern Mexico. She will become history later today(except for heavy rainfall, flooding, and possible mudslides in southern Mexico). Her remnants,however, will move into the Yucatan area, where they may facilitate the formation of a tropical depression later in the week. That system, even if it stays weak (and is supposed to, as of now), will still spread gusty winds and locally heavy rainfall across south Florida by Friday and Saturday. The National Hurricane Center forecast indicates that a tropical depression is likely to form over the southeast Gulf of Mexico and head toward south Florida (Fig. 2).
At this stage, it’s best to just pay attention to weather forecasts as the week progresses.
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Originally posted 5/31/22
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