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Recap: Week Of Welcome Rainfall

    North Lake County enjoyed dousing rainfall in the past week, both from the impacts of Hurricane Isaias and traditional weather patterns.  The amounts, reportedly approaching nine inches overall, reduced the area’s rainfall deficit while providing much-needed boosts to area lakes and ponds.
    Overall, negative impacts from the rainfall were negligible, save for isolated flooding in the lowest areas in Astor and ponding on certain area roads.
    Instead, the event was seen as a positive, bringing standing water back to Ocala National Forest area ponds that had gone dry during the recent rainfall deficit.  
    The City of Umatilla reported 8.5 inches of rain between Tuesday and Sunday of last week.  An automated rain gauge operated by the University of Florida indicated just 4.52 inches, and a similar gauge in Pierson recorded just 4.52 inches.
    It is not uncommon for such rain events Private gauges in the Umatilla area reported an average of six inches, with varying totals around that number, though at least one local reported 10 inches.
    RainDrop.com, a website that tracks totals, indicated just over 8 inches in the Altoona area, boosting annual totals to over 50 inches so far this year, actually almost three inches above historical averages year to date.  The same site indicates the week’s weather generated roughly five inches in Paisley, six inches in Astor, and another six inches in the city limits area of Eustis. Eustis however, remains in deficit for the year, with just over 38 inches reported for the year so far, down almost seven inches from historic averages through early October.