A tropical moisture plume extending southwest from the Northwest Caribbean Sea, Central America and across the Florida Keys northeastward for several hundred miles over the Southwest Atlantic are associated with the tropical moisture plume that tropical storm Colin was once associated with when it was in the Caribbean Sea still as a tropical disturbance before moving northwestward and developing into a tropical storm in the southern Gulf of Mexico last week. This residual tropical moisture plume has resulted in producing quick moving showers and thunderstorms to move from the Florida Straits north northeastward across the island chain and out to sea. Precipitation amounts from these rapidly moving showers and thunderstorms vary from about a tenth of an inch (.10) up to over four tenths of an inch (+.40) throughout the island chain except in parts of Marathon Key where Curry Hammock State Park received 1.43 of rain likely from a training effect of showers and thunderstorms in that particular area of the middle keys. Otherwise this tropical moisture band should remain in place over the island chain approximately for one more day before dissipating and contributing to June's monthly rainfall for the Florida Keys.
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