There is a discussion on Twitter about to what extent, if any, fire-induced convection and smoke from a wildfire northwest of Miami contributed to downstream precipitation and a flood advisory north of the city. While it happened on April 1, I don’t see any indication that it is a joke.
There is a possibility that outflow from a nearby thunderstorm interacted with the convection and smoke from the wildfire to intensify the effects.
The thread was started by Philipe Papin, a meteorologist with the NWS National Hurricane Center.
Pretty rare to see this in #Miami metro, but smoke induced convection (PyroCu) from a #wildfire just west in the everglades near Krome Ave seems to be triggering a flood advisory on the coast.
Can easily see new cells (high CC) triggered by wildfire smoke (low CC). ?? #FLwx https://t.co/TMFLxn2GSV pic.twitter.com/uwSc5SXABZ
— Philippe Papin (@pppapin) April 2, 2022
One of the fires in that general area is the 12,000-acre L 30 Fire which has been burning since at least March 28.
Yeh, nobody should be rocking a damn shelter that was made 16 years ago in the first place!!!!!
Given the combination of phenomena, it would be interesting to know approximately how much convection contributed to the amount/rate/period of precipitation.