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Weather watching
By Steve Norris
For the News-Gazette
Here we go again.
From Thursday through the weekend and into next week, there will be showers and storms numerous each day, many of those producing heavy downpours and frequent lightning strikes as well as strong wind gusts.
High temperatures will be in the 90s and we will drop into the mid-70s at night. We have already had six tropical systems, and that is incredible with it only being mid-July. The next two named storms will be Gonzalo and Hanna. I would love to have a few more weather spotters in our area, if you are a weather geek like me, contact me at the email below.
We need more rain gauges scattered around Osceola County as well as surrounding counties. Amounts can vary considerably from community to community. If you would be interested in keeping a daily tab on the rainfall and reporting it to the National Weather Service, go to Cocorahs.org to get all of the information on how to sign up. The only cost is the official gauge you need that you can purchase on its website. You only have to take one observation in the morning and then go online and put down the recorded rainfall during the past 24 hours. I am a daily contributor and this weather information can be very valuable to the Weather Service, and it is lots of fun to compare rainfall totals to the surrounding areas. You are also welcome to send me your rainfall total anytime, and who knows I may use it in my weekly article; just drop a note to weather1@charter.net
