{"id":304142,"date":"2026-06-11T18:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T18:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/304142\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T18:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T18:01:09","slug":"drought-improves-across-florida-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/304142\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought improves across Florida this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST PALM BEACH, Fla (CBS12) \u2014 The Drought Monitor that was issued Thursday morning shows significant improvments in Florida&#8217;s drought. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The drought has improved across the state. (WPEC)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/c69928f1-0663-4092-8ce8-30c9b53b164b-DroughtMonitorFLProgression.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The drought has improved across the state. (WPEC)<\/p>\n<p>There are still some areas across the state that are behind on rainfall for the year, however, the drought is looking much better overall. <\/p>\n<p>Locally, the Extreme Drought is nearly gone. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Extreme Drought is almost gone across the area. (WPEC)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/98cf29c5-9ae9-4fdf-861b-3a4cc55bc35b-DroughtMonitor.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Extreme Drought is almost gone across the area. (WPEC)<\/p>\n<p>As we continue moving through rainy season, hopefully this trend will continue. <\/p>\n<p>For June, we normally see around 8.5 inches of rain in West Palm Beach. We&#8217;ve seen 2.5 inches so far. <\/p>\n<p>There is an increased rain chance this weekend, which will continue to benefit the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST PALM BEACH, Fla (CBS12) \u2014 The Drought Monitor that was issued Thursday morning shows significant improvments in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-304142","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\/304142","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=304142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}