How big was our Big Rain Day?
According to the chart below, the biggest since Fay.
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| Now it’s time to get ready for a long string of Big Sun Days ahead! They are the orange dots. |
Meteorologists are calling it the biggest day of rain on the Kissimmee in a hundred years. see article As a result, Lake Okeechobee is expected jump two feet to around 13 ft above sea level in the coming weeks. That will still leave it three feet below the twenty-five year average for October, but still – beggars can’t be choosers …
It puts an extra half million acre feet in the Lake for the long dry season ahead.
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| The year of Fay (2008) is shown as the yellow line. |
You’ll remember that Fay raised the Lake a record 4 feet.
That’s because it rained directly on the Lake, not just the upstream watershed.
