No namers deserve names

September procrastinated all month, putting us (as of Monday 9/27), back against the wall, in the proverbial rainfall pickle:

How do we make up for a 3-inch rainfall deficit in as many days?



Answer:

That’s a cinch here in the Everglades.

All we do is call up some tropical moisture from the south!




The Cape Verdes get all the attention and go down in glory and by name in the record books, but time and time again it’s the No Namers that pop up out of nowhere in the Caribbean below that, year in and year out , are the ones that reliably, if also unpredictably, soak us the most.

Everybody remembers the Cape Verde spawned Floyd in 1999 even though it didn’t give us a drop of rain whereas Harvey, popping up a day later in the gulf and flooding large swaths of southwest Florida is all but forgotten.


That makes me think:

We need to come up with a naming convention for all our nameless rainmakers! (Although this one may end up being named which, if it is, will be Nicole. Currently it's just Tropical Depression Sixteen.)


This storm is even arriving with an entourage:

It isn’t officially due to arrive until Wednesday, but starting Monday skies have been churning with a parade of “mop-rag wet” clouds which start unleashing in torrents, followed by blue sky and then all over again.


So fear not:

September seems poised to fill up the rain chart just in the knick of time, and then some! Chances are we'll get our first (and belated) Big Rain Day** out of it too.


Be safe out there driving through the puddles!

* Click on map to view rain totals (through 9/27) in your basin.
** A Big Rain Day is defined as any day in which the south Florida wide rainfall average equals or exceeds 1 inch, as calculated by South Florida Water Management District. We've yet to have one this wet season.