How dry is it where you are in Florida ?

[steve2470]

It's getting pretty dry here in my corner of Florida (Orlando). If we don't start getting some good rain soon (as in early June when our normal "monsoon" season starts), we are going to have some bodacious fires.

How dry is it for you ?

http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Home/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?FL

[zipplewrath]

1. As a bone

3 inches in 4 months. That's 6 inches below normal. Can't even get the weeds to grow.

[steve2470]

2. yea my little pond is probably about a third below where it should be nt

[zipplewrath]

3. Water Hazards

The water hazards at OCN are completely dry.

[Motley13]

4. SoFlo had a good soaking rain a couple of days ago, very needed, lots of fires

[Callmecrazy]

5. I drove Alligator Alley(US75) ...

Right in the middle of fire near Naoples last month. Got a descent soaking on Sunday, though. It's been pretty dry all spring in FLL.

[Heddi]

6. I'm in Clearwater and I don't think it's rained since October

when that hurricane blew over us. It's been dry dry dry dry. I've had to top off the pool once a month since February and we just put sod down so have to super water it until the roots get established. I think they're pretty established so have been able to cut down to just watering on the twice-weekly water allowance days and even with that I don't even want to see what the water bill is gonna be this month.

We're losing about 5-ish inches a month in pool water just from evaporation. It's been really windy the last week or so, too, which hasn't helped. We do what we can to keep the yard healthy -- all of our neighbor's lawns are dead and brown, and when the rains come (and they will come), that dead grass and sandy soil isn't going to hold any water at all and they're gonna have some major flooding.

Because I'm in unincorporated Clearwater, we don't have a source of reclaimed water. We're supposed to be slowly being incorporated over the next year or so and I really look forward to the reclaimed water to use on the yard.