South Florida’s wet season is tardy this year, leaving double-digit rain deficits, a drought-stricken river of grass and increasing angst over wildfires.
But an atmosphere constipated by high pressure is finally on the move, promising showers this weekend that water management district meteorologists believe may mark a shift to the reliable afternoon rains and miasmic humidity that define summer.
While the National Weather Service in Miami has a hard start date of May 15 for the onset of rainy season – a reminder that dangerous thunderstorms loom – the timeline can be fickle. The NWS office in Melbourne declares the beginning of rainy season in hindsight, after reviewing weather patterns, but does have median start dates of May 23 for Stuart, May 25 for Fort Pierce and May 26 for Vero Beach.
WEST PALM BEACH – West Palm Beach voters returned an incumbent and added one new face to the five-member city commission.
In District 4 in the city s westernmost reaches, incumbent Joe Peduzzi brushed off a challenge from Jonathan E. Jones to win another two-year term. Peduzzi won by 69% to 31%.
Sickle Cell Foundation CEO Shalonda Warren beat Florida Atlantic University Instructor Deandre Poole by 55% to 45% for the District 2 city commission seat. The district runs roughly between Village Boulevard in the east and Military Trail in the west, from 45th Street in the north to Okeechobee Boulevard in the south. The two candidates competed for the seat vacated by Cory Neering.