Rain
 

Anyone notice when rain is predicted over/near the villages @ 70-80%,
it seems rain fronts approaching on radar, seem to "dry up" over the area
with no rain and plenty of thunder and lightning?

Played 18 this afternoon between 3-5:30 then swam laps from 5:45 - 7:15. Nasty clouds all around with thunder and lightening far away, but no rain or lightning anywhere close. Nice to live in the bubble: )

Tonight I was shooting pool at Chatham, poured for 10 mins. I live about 1 away. Only sprinkle at my house. When I got up to mulberry plaza, no rain at all. So at Chatham it was 100% and at mulberry plaza 0%. Forecast means it may rain on you or it may not. :eclipsee_gold_cup:

But I see what you mean. I play pickleball at noon when clouds are out, seems like at mulberry courts clouds can be 360 degrees and sun shine on courts? Like clouds evaporator when over court? :sad:

True! My wife and I have noticed that a lot: ominous black clouds in all four directions--but nothing overhead. All show and no go.

Except of course this past Thursday afternoon. We had just bought some new furniture and were moving it in on a 3/4-ton (open) truck. Trying to unload very heavy boxes slippery with rain is NOT fun.

It's the bubble, it protects us.

Yeh, Protecting us from green grass and lush golf courses

The radar is doing it again today (Sunday).
Those fronts dry up.

welcome to the bubble. It's called that for a reason. You can't always believe what to see/hear on the news.

WHAT??? You were in water swimming with lightning around??? Death wish…

Who'll stop the rain
 

i believe the arc committee handles rain requests

18 holes in 2.5 hrs. Impressive?

We average 54 inches of rain annually
 

We average about 54 inches of rain a year. August is the wettest month. Enjoy the rain or the sunshine. Life is short so embrace the days we get! The clouds are beautiful and the sky’s are breathtaking either way.

Yes

I’m not a meteorologist, but in brief, there are storms that seem to emit showers of rain over a broad area, often with no thunder or lightning. Here in the summer, we tend to get thunderstorms from the southwest or southeast that may pass over many areas with no release of rain, then suddenly emit a downpour in one area for a few minutes or an hour. It is common here for one part of The Villages to get fierce rainfall while most parts do not. Other times, most of The Villages gets the storm, but some areas may get much more than others. It all depends on the storm. It’s just how storms work. At my house last week, my rain gauge measured a total of 5.5” of rain, but perhaps you got much less. In one storm, I got 1.5” in an hour, but there were heavy clouds much longer than that. A couple days later, we got 2.5” in an hour. The week before, we had a storm with strong south winds where the rain seemed to be nearly horizontal. My lanai was soaked nearly to my sliding doors. I eagerly went to the rain gauge later expecting several inches, but there was only a half inch. I decided that because my rain gauge is only two feet from my neighbor’s house, her house had blocked most of the driving rain.

I use the web site WeatherUnderground online for my weather reports. It tends to be much more accurate and less excitable than TV weather people, and it takes less time. It may say 20% 0.01”. That means 80% chance of no rain, and if it does rain, hardly any. But if it does rain, it will be 100% rain somewhere, not 20% rain. Probably not a lot of it, though. Perhaps the forecast is for 0.25” of rain, and I feel cheated when I don’t get any at my house and think the forecast was inaccurate. But the forecast was for The Villages, which is, what, about forty square miles now? If it rained in some other part of The Villages, I wouldn’t necessarily know.

I have heard from various sources that the number of roof tops and blacktop roads creates a significant updraft of hot air pushing storms away from the area. If you have watched radar on the internet, storms frequently seem to split and go around TVs and reform on the backside. It takes a fairly storm rainstorm to disrupt the updraft and allow rain to hit the ground. It could also be raining but because of the hot air updraft, the rain evaporates before hitting the ground.

This is certainly an unscientific explanation, but it makes sense to me.