by Daniel J. Leonard | Oct 9, 2020
A few weeks ago, Hurricane Sally churned onshore and dumped an unrelenting amount of rain on the Florida Panhandle. Thankfully, Calhoun, Jackson and adjoining counties were spared the lashing winds, storm surge, and widespread power outages that our neighbors to the...
by Doug Mayo | Oct 2, 2020
Rainfall What a difference a year makes. In September of 2019, much of the Panhandle was dealing with a serious drought (map to right), but September 2020 was drastically different. Hurricane Sally and the leftover rainfall from Hurricane Beta caused substantial...
by external | Sep 25, 2020
Kirsten Romaguera, Public Relations Specialist, UF/IFAS Communications The combination of crops, livestock and aquaculture products lost as a result of Hurricane Sally will likely be valued between $55 million and $100 million, University of Florida economists...
by Libbie Johnson | Sep 18, 2020
– Hurricane Sally was a Category 2 hurricane with 105 mph winds at landfall in Gulf Shores, Alabama (11 miles west of FL), but in rural farming regions of the Florida Panhandle it was not just the high winds, but the tremendous rainfall from this slow moving...
by Doug Mayo | Sep 4, 2020
Rainfall August 2020 was a wet month for much of the Panhandle Region, but not everywhere. In the map above to the left, you can see rainfall estimates for August 2020 across Florida. While there were areas that had more than 13″ (blue and purple) the areas in...
by external | Aug 28, 2020
– On August 21, 2020, Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried and the Florida Forest Service announced that registration for the Florida Timber Recovery Block Grant Program and the Florida Irrigation Recovery Block Grant Program is now available to agricultural...
