{"id":481048,"date":"2026-06-07T16:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T16:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/481048\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T16:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T16:59:09","slug":"even-with-over-a-foot-of-rain-last-month-were-still-in-a-drought-northescambia-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/481048\/","title":{"rendered":"Even With Over A Foot Of Rain Last Month, We\u2019re Still In A Drought : NorthEscambia.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northescambia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/drought0602a.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-624536\" title=\"drought0602a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/drought0602a-540x335.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are slowly getting there.<\/p>\n<p>Despite well over a foot of rain across much of the area last month, most of Escambia County remains in a moderate drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. But that\u2019s an improvement over the severe drought that was impacting much of Escambia County a month ago.<\/p>\n<p>A small area of Escambia County in Florida is now officially out of the drought. The extreme northwestern part of the county, including Nokomis and Davisville, is classified officially as just being\u00a0as just being abnormally dry.<\/p>\n<p>The drought monitor does not measure recent rainfall; it tracks how deeply an area\u2019s total water system has recovered from long-term deficits.<\/p>\n<p>The next report will be issued on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Written by William Reynolds \u00b7 Filed Under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northescambia.com\/category\/top-story\" title=\"View all posts in TOP STORIES\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TOP STORIES<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We are slowly getting there. Despite well over a foot of rain across much of the area last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":["post-481048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}