How much rain?
 

Wow - quite a storm today with pouring rains. Is there an "official" rainfall report where you can see the total rainfall from a day like today?

I use the app PWS Monitor. It allows you to choose any online weather stations you want.
Down in St. Cats we got 1.76”. Yesterday a little over 2.5.

I think the closest official national weather service station is Leesburg Airport.

I also go to the PWS app. You can search stations near you. I have several within half a mile.

I live near sawgrass and, according to my rain gauge, we got more than 6 inches since Monday afternoon.

I have a simple rain gauge that registered 2 1/4 inches yesterday and 3 inches today here in Osceola Hills.

There seems to be a huge difference as to how much rain different areas of the villages gets during a storm

PWS Monitor let's you select stations from a map, save, name and compare multiple stations.

Was watching the cameras on the squares one day and at Lake Sumter it was grey and storming then went to the Spanish Springs camera and it was sunny and dry.

Thats Florida for you

Seems that is the way of Florida. Storms seem very localized. Up in prairie country a storm front can span three states. Down here, five miles seems more the norm.

The good thing is when driving thru these storms they usually end pretty quickly

Gregg.... get a rain gauge and put it in your garden. NOT under any trees or bushes or palms. You can then tell exactly how much rain fell on your lawn. I received 1 1/2 inches yesterday, and turned my sprinkler system off.

Sometimes it rains across the street but not at my house

I go by my bird bath if it’s’ half full about 1” if full about 2 1/2 “. If really have to know get rain gauge.

Some times it rains when sun shining on my house.

Some of you might be looking at my PWS stats. I put in my own PWS system so I have accurate weather data that my sprinkler system uses this data to run in “smart” mode.
Over the last week, some other local PWS data have shown over a 1/2” difference of rain over a 1 mile radius.