At not only how different the state Doppler radar is from the local one, but at how little rain one can get from a "heavy shower' on the local Doppler. I filled the pool this morning in the hopes that one of the many "thunderstorms" predicted for today would actually hit us. We watched all weekend as they approached southeast Palm Beach County, and would either stall, or fizzle out, just before they reached us. We really need the rain here. And thunderstorms are one of the three things that I like about south Florida, relative to south coastal California.

Still, I'm glad that we have much better weather forecasting and sensing than we did as a kid growing up in southeast Michigan, when the best they could do is tell you that they had "tornado watches" and "warnings" and it was based on a WAG as to where they were going to go.

Yeah, Chicago and it's area didn't get much either, I was gonna barbecue today, and since I don't have a covered porch, I was waiting for the rain that is supposedly sitting on top of me all day to pass. and none came. HEll, I even had to water my herbs. (as in basil, not "HERB" which never held my attraction, makes pesto taste like an old mans scrotum.)

...makes pesto taste like an old mans scrotum.

I won't ask how you know...

Well, as a kid, I put "herb" in a brownie, and while it was supposed to taste like a brownie? It tasted like your scrotum.