{"id":658759,"date":"2026-05-22T16:19:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T16:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/658759\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T16:19:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T16:19:19","slug":"rivers-up-just-inches-as-area-remains-in-a-severe-drought-northescambia-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/658759\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivers Up Just Inches As Area Remains In A Severe Drought : NorthEscambia.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northescambia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Drought-River-1001.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-622911\" title=\"Drought-River-1001\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Drought-River-1001-540x359.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dry conditions have improved slightly across the area, but all of Escambia and Santa Rosa counties remain in a severe drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor data released on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-622907\" title=\"drought1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/drought1-540x335.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"201\" \/>Portions of northern Escambia and Santa Rosa counties in Florida had been in an extreme drought, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northescambia.com\/2026\/05\/rain-and-thunderstorms-into-the-holiday-weekend\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rain that is forecast through Monday<\/a> will make a difference, but how much remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>The Escambia River at Century was at 3.27 feet and falling on Thursday night. That\u2019s up about seven inches from 2.69 feet on April 28. On Thursday night, the Perdido River at Barrineau Park was at 1.47 feet and falling, up\u00a0about 1.5 inches from 1.34 feet on April 28.<\/p>\n<p>For more photos, click here.<\/p>\n<p>During a 50-to-100-year drought in July 2011, the Escambia and Perdido rivers were at 2.90 and 1.30 feet, respectively.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northescambia.com\/2026\/04\/escambia-perdido-rivers-dropping-closer-to-historic-lows-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RELATED: Escambia River Dropping Closer To Historic Low (April 29)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pictured: The Escambia River at Fischer Landing near Century this week. NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northescambia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Drought-River-1005.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-622912\" title=\"Drought-River-1005\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Drought-River-1005-540x341.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Written by William Reynolds \u00b7 Filed Under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northescambia.com\/category\/top-story\" title=\"View all posts in TOP STORIES\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TOP STORIES<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dry conditions have improved slightly across the area, but all of Escambia and Santa Rosa counties remain in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-658759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}