by Doug Mayo | Jun 10, 2016
May Rainfall May was a more typical rainfall month for the Panhandle with El Niño disappearing. In the graphic above you can see that only small portions of northern Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties received more than 8″ for the month, while the areas in green...
by Doug Mayo | May 13, 2016
April was a wetter than average month in most locations across the Panhandle, but nothing like the April rains of 2014 and 15. There were a few pockets in hot pink that had over 10″ of rainfall for the month while portions of Gulf and Franklin received less...
by Doug Mayo | Apr 8, 2016
Just when it seemed El Niño had lost it’s grip, the deluges started again at the end of March. Many farmers were planting watermelons and corn, or preparing land for cotton and peanuts in mid-March, but heavy rains at the end of the month and in early April...
by Doug Mayo | Mar 4, 2016
February 2016 The National Weather Service estimated that rainfall ranged from 10″ to as little as 2″ in February across the Florida Panhandle. The dark red portions of the map received between 8-10″ and the light tan and yellow areas only...
by Doug Mayo | Feb 5, 2016
January was a more normal month for much of the Florida Panhandle. Much of the soil is still somewhat saturated from all of the rain at the end of 2015, but from the map above you can see that the majority of the region had less than 6″ in January 2016. ...
by Doug Mayo | Jan 8, 2016
December was a very wet month for much of the Panhandle, but there was wide variation with eastern counties having much lower totals. The areas in hot pink show areas that received more than 10″ in December. Portions of Jefferson and Wakulla had less than...