by Doug Mayo | Dec 11, 2015
November was an unusually wet month across the Panhandle with fairly wide variation. According to the National Weather Service estimates, the hot pink portions of Okaloosa, Walton, Washington, Holmes, Jackson, Liberty, Franklin, Wakulla and Leon Couties had over...
by Doug Mayo | Nov 6, 2015
The crazy weather year continued in October. I suspect 2015 will be remembered as the year when it did not rain when we wanted it to in the Panhandle. There was quite a difference in the rainfall that fell in the western Panhandle as compared to the eastern...
by Doug Mayo | Oct 9, 2015
Our hearts are saddened by the preliminary reports coming from South Carolina after more than a week of constant and heavy rains in the region. Hugh Weathers, South Carolina Commissioner for Agriculture issued a preliminary report from initial damage assessments:...
by Doug Mayo | Oct 2, 2015
August was another very dry month for much of the Panhandle. Drought busting rains did come finally at the end of September, but was not at all uniform across the region, and came too late in the year to boost crop yields. While the heavy rains fell at the very end...
by Doug Mayo | Sep 18, 2015
Source: Southeast Innovative Farming Team Tropical Pacific Heating up Over the past several months, water temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean have been warming at an alarming rate, building one of the strongest El Niño’s in decades. El Niño refers...
by Doug Mayo | Aug 7, 2015
June and July were certainly hot and dry across much of the Panhandle. The above graphic shows the June rainfall totals with isolated areas having less than two inches while along the coast, isolated areas had more than 10 inches fall in the month. Most of the...
