Rainy Season in Florida begins!

South Florida residents have been waiting for the start of the summer 2014 rainy season. Well, it’s coming this week, albeit a few days behind schedule.

According to Robert Molleda, The Warning Coordination Meteorologist at the National Weather Service (NWS) Office in Miami, FL, the median start date for the rainy season is May 20 (southeast coast) and a week later for inland and west coast locales. The season (which brings roughly 70 percent of south Florida’s annual rainfall) lasts for about 5 months (150 days or so).

Thanks to a late season cold front (which dragged in some drier air at middle altitudes), it has been hard for thunderstorm-like clouds to develop in recent days. On May 24, a few small towers popped up on the west coast sea breeze front, well inland. They were weak and short-lived. Today, there were a few stronger showers and thunderstorms and the building cloud towers were noticeably taller and more developed.

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