{"id":304288,"date":"2026-06-11T20:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T20:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/304288\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T20:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T20:15:13","slug":"el-nino-imminent-could-reshape-weather-patterns-heres-what-it-means-for-fl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/304288\/","title":{"rendered":"El Ni\u00f1o &#8216;Imminent,&#8217; Could Reshape Weather Patterns. Here&#8217;s What It Means For FL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AccuWeather said drought concerns could linger for years in parts of the Plains after El Ni\u00f1o conditions peak, especially from Texas northward into the Dakotas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing the end of El Ni\u00f1o, the next two to three years could end up being significantly drier, leading to drought conditions, especially in parts of the plains from west Texas to the Dakotas,\u201d Pastelok said. \u201cEl Ni\u00f1o patterns tend to be persistent, meaning places that end up drier than average can stay that way for an extended period of time, possibly for months or even years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Central Plains: The Plains could see lingering drought impacts even after the strongest El Ni\u00f1o conditions subside.<\/p>\n<p>AccuWeather warned that pockets of severe to extreme drought could extend well into 2027 and potentially beyond in parts of the Plains from Texas to North Dakota.<\/p>\n<p>That could affect agriculture, water supplies, wildfire risk and regional heat patterns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AccuWeather said drought concerns could linger for years in parts of the Plains after El Ni\u00f1o conditions peak,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-304288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304288","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=304288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}