Rainy days are in the weather forecast for the end of this week, this weekend and into next week on the Treasure Coast — and should help alleviate ongoing drought conditions.
After a few dry months, more showers and storms overall are expected across the area with rain chances at 70-80% every day through June 3, said meteorologist Cassie Leahy with the National Weather Service in Melbourne.
Rainfall amounts could be hit-or-miss some days, Leahy said, but all areas should get rain at some point. The highest rain chances are in the afternoons.
Meteorologists plan to keep an eye out for localized flooding each day if showers and storms set up over the same area multiple days in a row, she said.
The rainy days are from tropical moisture — not a tropical system — combined with a shift to more of a summertime pattern of weather and rain, Leahy said. She noted hurricane season starts June 1, but meteorologists weren’t watching anything specific.
Skies would be partly cloudy with more clouds in the afternoons, depending on the day, she said. That cloud coverage only slightly helps with temperatures, keeping them just above normal overall across the area.
High temperatures during the day were expected to reach the upper 80s to low 90s through June 1 and maybe the mid-80s next week, Leahy said. Conditions will be moist, so the heat index is expected to be in the upper 90s and even low 100s in Martin County.
Low temperatures overnight are expected in the 70s, she said. Normal highs on the Treasure Coast for this time of the year are in the upper 80s, and normal lows are in the low 70s.
Drought conditions were slightly improving. Most of Martin, St. Lucie and Indian River counties still remained in “severe drought,” according to the U.S. Drought Monitor map released May 21. The map is updated weekly.
The western part of Martin County and a southwest section of St. Lucie County still remained in “extreme drought,” but a small western portion of Indian River County that had been in “extreme drought” had improved to “severe drought.”
Plus, the coastal areas of St. Lucie and Indian River counties that had been in “severe drought” had improved to “moderate drought.”
Laurie K. Blandford is a breaking news reporter with TCPalm. Email her at laurie.blandford@tcpalm.com.
This article originally appeared on Treasure Coast Newspapers: Rainy days in Florida weather forecast, localized flooding possible
Reporting by Laurie K. Blandford, Treasure Coast Newspapers / Treasure Coast Newspapers
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