Saturday evening was a wild one for Florida, as mainly south of I-10 saw many rounds of heavy rains, some small hail, and gusty winds to 45 mph. It lasted for hours, starting around 4 pm, reaching a peak around 6 p.m. with a number of severe thunderstorm warnings and a Doppler indicated tornado in Flagler County. The more serious rains didn’t end until after 2 a.m.
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The satellite picture shows the next front approaching that will bring in more rain later this afternoon along with some breezy southerly winds 10-15 gusting to 30, 40-50 at the beaches. This system will bring up to an inch of rain in the Coast Range and will increase river flow rate some. The rain will ease later tonight, and we likely see some scattered light showers behind the front, and the winds shift to westerly then decrease to around 8-12 after midnight, highs near 54, lows near 41.Â
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Tomorrow we have some spotty rain to start the day but things then get complicated. The big picture is, we develop a west to east flow, also known as a zonal flow, and this flow will transport lots of moisture from the southwest. Being tropical in nature, it holds higher amounts of moisture. This is what used to be called a Pineapple Express, now known as an Atmospheric River. To complicate things, there will be disturbances riding this west to east flow and as they move