{"id":704084,"date":"2026-06-14T19:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T19:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/704084\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T19:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T19:32:10","slug":"with-recent-rain-drought-eases-across-most-of-escambia-county-northescambia-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/704084\/","title":{"rendered":"With Recent Rain, Drought Eases Across Most Of Escambia County : NorthEscambia.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northescambia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/drought0613a.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-625241\" title=\"drought0613a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/drought0613a-540x380.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For several months, the entire area was in a drought. But with recent rains, most of Escambia County is now just classified as \u201cabnormally dry\u201d by the U.S. Drought Monitor.<\/p>\n<p>A small area in the northeast corner of the county, including Century, is still classified as being in a moderate drought, as is almost all of Santa Rosa County.<\/p>\n<p>The Drought Monitor does not measure recent rainfall; it tracks how deeply an area\u2019s total water system has recovered from long-term deficits.<\/p>\n<p>Written by William Reynolds \u00b7 Filed Under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northescambia.com\/category\/front-top\" title=\"View all posts in FRONT TOP\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FRONT TOP<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For several months, the entire area was in a drought. But with recent rains, most of Escambia County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-704084","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\/704084","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=704084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}