{"id":262415,"date":"2026-05-07T19:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/262415\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T19:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:36:10","slug":"desperately-needed-rain-soaks-tallahassee-amid-exceptional-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/262415\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Desperately Needed&#8217; Rain Soaks Tallahassee Amid Exceptional Drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Doorbell camera captured a gusty <a data-ylk=\"slk:thunderstorm;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSTallahassee\/status\/2052432119075320043?s=20\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">thunderstorm<\/a> blowing through Tallahassee on Thursday afternoon, May 7, as severe weather moved across Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The National Weather Service (NWS) had <a data-ylk=\"slk:warned;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSTallahassee\/status\/2052432119075320043?s=20\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">warned<\/a> the Tallahassee area to prepare for wind up to 60 mph, quarter-sized hail, and a possible tornado.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Resident Eric Carr, whose camera took the footage, said the rain was \u201cdesperately needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to US Drought Monitor, Leon County was in <a data-ylk=\"slk:exceptional drought;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/CurrentMap\/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?fips_12073\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">exceptional drought<\/a> as of May 5. Credit: Eric Carr via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Doorbell camera captured a gusty thunderstorm blowing through Tallahassee on Thursday afternoon, May 7, as severe weather moved&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[10176,113225,2072,10173,232,234,233,113226],"class_list":["post-262415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-doorbell-camera","tag-eric-carr","tag-national-weather-service","tag-severe-weather","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-us-drought-monitor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262415","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=262415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}