July 14-15

We are approaching the half way point of meteorological summer, and the ongoing thoughts since March are holding up.  We are experiencing summer levels of heat for sure....but more so than the temperature, the humidity (and lack of drought conditions) is the big story this summer.  This likely continues.  We aren't going to see widespread upper 90's and lower 100's for actual temperatures.  However, thanks to the rain we have gotten, we aren't seeing a drought of any widespread magnitude but the rain is keeping the humidity levels high.  We can experience wide ranging summers.  Think back to 2012 - we would have been mistaken for Arizona with high temperatures and no rain.  Florida will never be hotter than Arizona for any length of time, because Florida has a ton more rain and more humidity.  We are going to increase our rain chances Friday and this will continue into Saturday, with some heavy rain and strong to severe thunderstorms (storms more likely Saturday).  We cool down and dry out before more heat, humidity and storms come in around next Thursday.  The 23rd-29th looks warm, muggy to extremely humid -- with rain/storm chances.  We should dry out and cool down/lower the humidity for the very end of July and opening to August!   I think as we get deeper into fall, we will have to watch for drought conditions to develop -- but this should be after a lot of the growth portion of the growing season has completed.