The latest update of the U.S. Drought Monitor reveals worsening drought conditions across Southwest Florida.<\/p>\n
Moderate drought conditions have extended further south, now encompassing a much larger percentage of the region.<\/p>\n
Moderate drought has taken hold across all of Desoto and Charlotte counties.<\/p>\n
Most of Lee, Glades and Hendry Counties are under the moderate drought, while portions of Collier County are also now under the moderate drought.<\/p>\n
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The dry season has taken a tight grip across the region, leading to a growing number of days without measurable rainfall.<\/p>\n
That number is up to 24 days across Fort Myers and Naples, with a total of 21 days since measurable rainfall in Punta Gorda.<\/p>\n
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Drought conditions can be alleviated by persistent soaking rain events.<\/p>\n
Over the next seven days across Southwest Florida, rain chances are slim to none.<\/p>\n
A very weak front moving through on Sunday will only bring a stray shower to the region.<\/p>\n
There is a stronger front that will be approaching closer to Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n
The Weather Authority is currently forecasting isolated showers in Southwest Florida for Thanksgiving and Black Friday as a cold front brings added lift and moisture to the environment.<\/p>\n
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WINK News is the Weather Authority and will continue to update you on the worsening drought conditions both on-air and online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest update of the U.S. Drought Monitor reveals worsening drought conditions across Southwest Florida. Moderate drought conditions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,33888,897,1521,14343],"class_list":["post-54140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-droughts-in-the-united-states","tag-fort-myers","tag-southwest-florida","tag-weather-authority"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54140","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=54140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}