CBS4.com
By Ted Scouten
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As of Tuesday morning the lake was just 9.00 feet above sea level. That's less than half an inch above its recorded lowest point of 8.97 feet in the summer of 2001. Normally the lake should be at 13.24 feet above sea level.
The South Florida Water Management Districts said over the last several month's the lake has been losing about half an inch a day, so we could hit the all time low mark by Wednesday.
As we head into our wet season, forecasters are calling for a 40 to 50 percent chance of rain this weekend, but that will only be a 'drop in the bucket'. We’re going to need about 60 inches of rain fall between now and November in order to pull the lake Okeechobee water levels to where we would like them to be prior to moving into the next dry season.
CBS4 meteorologist Jeff Berardelli said it would take the amount of rain associated with a tropical depression or tropical storm to have a substantial impact on lake's level.