{"id":143550,"date":"2026-02-04T16:40:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/143550\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T16:40:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:40:23","slug":"chilly-weather-continues-amid-worsening-drought-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/143550\/","title":{"rendered":"Chilly weather continues amid worsening drought conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOCAL NEWS<\/p>\n<p>Published:\u00a0February 3, 2026 at 12:25 PM<\/p>\n<p>Tags:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/topic\/weather\/\" title=\"View more stories about weather\" gacategory=\"Article Rail\" gaaction=\"Tag Link\" galabel=\"weather\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">weather<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 lhBXaj jdBbpv\">Let\u2019s talk rain\u2014because we really need it. Parts of our area, especially from Lake City to Gainesville and heading up into southern Georgia, are experiencing severe to even extreme drought.\u00a0<br \/>\nThe good news is rain is in the forecast. By Wednesday, we\u2019re expected to see a 60 percent chance of showers as a front moves through. If you\u2019ve noticed your yard or local parks looking extra dry, you\u2019re not alone. This rain can\u2019t come soon enough!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOCAL NEWS Published:\u00a0February 3, 2026 at 12:25 PM Tags:\u00a0weather Let\u2019s talk rain\u2014because we really need it. Parts of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117,221],"class_list":["post-143550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}