A week after more than 2 feet of rain fell on parts of Florida’s Space Coast, the water is still working its way north through the St. Johns River, keeping homes near Cocoa on the edge of major flooding and pushing the river toward flood stage in Seminole and Volusia counties.
The river near Cocoa in Brevard County stood at 16.98 feet at 6:15 a.m. EST Monday, according to the National Weather Service’s river gauge. Flood stage there is 16 feet, and major flood stage begins at 17 feet. The weather service forecast a rise to 17.1 feet by Tuesday morning.
“Exceptional rainfall over the headwaters of the St. Johns River has caused Moderate to Major flooding at the gauge west of Cocoa,” the weather service office in Melbourne said in a flood warning updated at 8:07 p.m. Sunday. “The river may rise slightly early this week and remain in Major flood stage through at least Friday.”…