10/13 - Tuesday

Boy, what a difference a week is going to make.

We're looking at a sunshine, a week of sunshine ahead here with dry conditions, quite the opposite of what we had last week in what is one of the wettest first 10 days of October on record in Jacksonville.

We're now at 11.11 inches officially at the International Airport for the month.

If it didn't rain anymore, we'd still end up with nearly three times the average amount of October rainfall, and we are now at 10th.

For the old time, wettest October on record with still 18 more days to go.

So a good chance we'll move up that ranking.

But boy, quite a first 10 to 12 days of October.

And of course, while we were starting to make improvement on the drought through September, boy, this really helped us out.

I'm not going to tell you that it obliterated or wiped it out, but boy, it made a serious dent.

A drought buster, I don't think, is any question about it.

And there are some spots that have received 16 to 19 inches of rain, especially eastern and southeastern Duval, parts of central Duval have had those kinds of amounts and would have already put us already as the wettest October on record.

So we've got uh retention ponds filled like the old days so to speak um nice and full and um yeah technically still a long-term drought and we've been asking for rain for a long time our aquifers need it but we also after a 10 to 12 day stretch like that need a few dry days now and we certainly will get that of course our evaporation rate much lower now this time of year the days are shorter the temperatures are generally cooler Speaking of which, though, it will be a warm week with all the sunshine, but with comfortable humidity, we will be dropping off nicely at night.

So upper to 50s to low 60s early this morning, upper 80s this afternoon.

So we're looking at about a 30-degree temperature swing from day to night.

Diurnal swing is what we call it.

And that happens a lot of times in the fall and spring when you have that dry air.

So while it's very warm, and that is a good 5 to 6 degrees above average during the afternoon hours, we at least don't have an insufferable feel-like temperature.

I mean, the weekend, gosh, Saturday felt like...

I mean, it was hot.

In fact, we had dew point temperatures above 80 degrees Saturday.

That has not happened much this year, let alone to have it happen in October.

And that, of course, was helping to fuel all the rain and storms.

Well, now we catch a nice break from that humidity.

And it's pretty much what you see is what you get through Friday.

And then we do have a cold front that moves through Friday night and early Saturday.