Current conditions are mildly wet. This week can be characterized as occasionally rainy, usually overcast, and beginning unseasonably warm but cooling to overnight frost by the weekend. Tuesday, the 10th, was near freezing all day with a few unmeasurable snow flurries; after dark, temperatures rose rapidly, relative humidities remained high, and a series of active thunderstorms arrived overnight dropping 0.85 inches of rain and leaving heavy field flooding and full drainage ditches. Although the immediate area avoided severe weather, the same storm, while passing to the south, dropped tornadoes and large hail. The 13th brought high southerly winds which caused wide-spread and extended power outages. Field flooding persists but is noticeably reduced from its mid-week peek. The St. Joe River is high and muddy but not flooding. More signs of spring are arriving: spring peepers were audible by Tuesday morning. Daffodils are on the verge of blooming; although subtle, red buds are visible on red maple trees; even more subtle, lawns are showing slight greening and growth. The catch gauge captured 1.12 inches of precipitation this week, all in the form of rain. Moving forward, there is no place to absorb or channel any future rain or snowmelt.
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