Here's the problem. Cayman does get rain - and sometimes lots of it. The problem is that it either comes as a wave that covers the whole island or as bands, that dump rain on a 1-2 mile wide strip and leave either side dry.
So far, the past couple weeks have seen only bands.Last week I measured some of the rain and we had 16" and this week, my total is almost 6". Early this morning, it started to thunder at around 4am and I got up to take a look. Some lightning and cloudy skies but nothing serious.
Right now, it is thundering quite a bit to the south and I went outside to take another look.The clouds are about 2 miles south and about 1 mile wide with rain. A thought came to me. A few weeks ago, the weather bureau was saying that we only had about 7+" of rain all year. What do they say now? A quick check on the internet brings the total up to 16.74" with only 0.37" today (so far).In the past two weeks, west bay has had 22" and counting.
I have decided to make a more accurate rain gauge and record that amount of rain over 2010. I would then compare my results to the weather bureau at 3 month intervals - although I can also do Sept-Dec as a check.
The picture below is a composite of this mornings storm cloud. Please click on it to see a larger picture. A lot of it is hidden due to the picture size.
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