Reply #13: Florida's weather has been cockeyed for a decade or so now... When I firest moved

[1monster]

here thrity-six years ago, in hte summer, we had a heavy down pour lasting about fifteen to twenty minutes every day... usually at four o'clock, give or take a half hour. You could almost set your watch by it.

These days, the weather is anybody's guess. In 1997-98, we had (seemingly) almost constant rain from November to March. Then no rain at all. Wild fires started in the state in June and by July, every country in the state had at least one wild fire. My county had three at any given time. It was so dry that the July Fourth fireworks display was canceled, even though they were set off in the middle of a bay.

The only regular weather patterns we have now are irregular.

This year, we had a (very) long cool spring. Most years we have a short, hot spring. Different from our past four seasons of warm, hot, very hot, and winter (What most folks north of us would call spring).