She really is not a nice lady. She changes her mind sometimes every hour. I have been watching the Jacksonville Doppler radar and putting it in motion and Fay is hardly moving. The center was almost entirely offshore for a time today and at least half of it still is. After being stalled for hours, she had started a very slow movement toward the WNW at only 2 mph.
This radar loop that I am watching seems to indicate that she may have taken a slight south of due west movement during the last hour. We don’t know for sure, but the lates official track forecast brings her westward across North Florida and the Florida Panhandle just barely inland most of the time. With just a little bit of a southward movement, she could get back over the waters of the Northern Gulf. Our friend, the Gulf of Mexico, is sporting 582,000 square miles of nice warm water–a welcome to any tropical disturbance.
HISTORIC RAIN AMOUNTS
I sure do appreciate ABC 33/40 Skywatcher, Michelle Miklik, for helping me gather storm totals instead of just 24-hour totals. We may have to appoint her as the RO (Rain Officer).
26.20 Melbourne National Weather Service Office
7.03 Del Tona
19.72 Four miles NW of Palm Shores
14.17 Just west of Palm Shores
14.42 Micco
12.19 Rockledge
18.35 Three miles NW of Palm Shores
16.53 Malabar
12.15 Palm Bay
11.61 Cocoa
A FEW SPOT REPORTS AT 3:00 P.M. CDT
Apalachicola…partly sunny, north 14, gusts 21
Tallahassee…cloudy, north 13, gusts 22
Mayport Naval Air Station near Jacksonville…heavy rain, wind NE 39, gusts 52
Jacksonville…steady rain, heavy at times, NE 24, gusts 43
Jacksonville Naval Air Station…heavy rain, poor visibility, NE 33, gusts 58
Sanford…heavy rain, west 31, gusts 39
Orlando…steady rain, west 25, gusts 36
Daytona Beach…steady rain, SW 17, gusts 28
