April 2025 Weather Summary and Summer Outlook

April 2025 Weather Summary and Summer Outlook

Rainfall April was another dry month in the Florida Panhandle, but not as bad as in Central and South Florida.  The map to the left above shows an estimate of actual rainfall in April.  The Panhandle ranged from 1-1.75″ (tan), 1.75-2.5″ (yellow),...
1st Quarter 2025 Weather Summary and 2nd Quarter Outlook

1st Quarter 2025 Weather Summary and 2nd Quarter Outlook

Rainfall The climate forecast of a warmer and drier than normal La Niña winter came true for the most part in the Panhandle.  The maps above show the variation from normal rainfall in January, February, and March.  In general. all of the gold, orange and red areas on...
2024 Annual Weather Summary and 1st Quarter 2025 Outlook

2024 Annual Weather Summary and 1st Quarter 2025 Outlook

Rainfall 2024 will be remembered by most farmers and ranchers as a dry growing season, but rainfall totals for the whole year were highly variable.  The map above to the left shows NOAA’s estimate of annual rainfall in 2024 across Florida.  Multiple hurricanes...
August 2024 Weather Summary and Fall Outlook

August 2024 Weather Summary and Fall Outlook

Rainfall August was really hot and dry for much of the Panhandle, as Hurricane Debby sucked all of the moisture out of the Gulf and dumped it on Southeast Georgia and South Carolina.  Looking at the maps above, the divide between the areas that got drenched or...
April 2024 Weather Summary and Summer Outlook

April 2024 Weather Summary and Summer Outlook

Rainfall April was another drier than average month for the Western Panhandle Counties, but was really wet east of the Apalachicola River.  This has been an ongoing trend from last year, where rainfall is very uneven in the Panhandle  The map to the left above, shows...