{"id":207201,"date":"2026-03-26T18:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/207201\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T18:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:04:13","slug":"drought-continues-to-worsen-across-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/207201\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought continues to worsen across Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12)      \u2014 A new Drought Monitor came out Thursday morning, and it shows the drought getting worse across the state.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Drought is getting worse across the state. (WPEC)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/3b43e83e-10f1-4188-8046-14e6cb26c947-DroughtMonitorFLProgression.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Drought is getting worse across the state. (WPEC)<\/p>\n<p>Exceptional Drought, which is level 5 out of 5, is spreading across north Florida and into Georgia. Right now, Tallahassee is behind by about 6.5 inches of rainfall this year. <\/p>\n<p>Locally, our drought conditions haven&#8217;t changed, and most of South Florida is still under Extreme Drought. <\/p>\n<p>West Palm Beach and Vero Beach are also both behind on rain for the year. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"We are behind on rainfall for the year. (WPEC)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/5a2cbe33-f78b-4c4c-9d45-4b389d24adcd-RainfallThisYear.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>We are behind on rainfall for the year. (WPEC)<\/p>\n<p>West Palm is behind over 4.5 inches of rain, while Vero Beach is behind by close to 3 inches. <\/p>\n<p>If we wanted to get rid of the drought, South Florida would need about 16 inches of rain over the next month, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncei.noaa.gov\/access\/monitoring\/drought-recovery\/current\/wmp\/end-rain\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NOAA<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Most of Florida would need around 16 inches of rain over the next month to get rid of the drought. (WPEC)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/fb71e1f8-7bdd-41ae-9b97-4ff4db010e9a-map.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Most of Florida would need around 16 inches of rain over the next month to get rid of the drought. (WPEC)<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, that&#8217;s not something we have in the forecast, so for now the drought will likely continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A new Drought Monitor came out Thursday morning, and it shows the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-207201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207201","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=207201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}