Here in Central Florida, Oct-May is our dry season.  Average rainfall in these months is about 2.5" or 6cm per month.  This year we've been very dry, averaging only about 1" per month or 2.5cm, and its been the warmest Jan-April on record.  One day this past week it was 97, or 36c, with low humidity and high wind.  We were out of town for a family gathering and when we came home, we found that even our large palms suffering.  I'd have never believed Washingtonia robusta would suffer from drought stress here, but its happening, and not just in our yard.  Queen palms, and Livistonas are dropping older leaves, and young palms are just outright dying.  Part of our problem is we don't have soil, just sand, and it can't hold much water.  In our area, we need 80" or 2m of soil to hold 8" or 20cm of rainwater.  Gardening here is more difficult here than any place I've lived.  The files I've attached are videos I shot yesterday.  Today is watering day, and we're hoping the well doesn't run dry.  The long range forecast says the pattern we're in will persist another month, which means our rainy season will be late.  I'm hoping the forecasters are wrong about that.  

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Those palms look like Cali palms in the rainy season. Probably better looking. lol

 

 

33 minutes ago, GottmitAlex said:

Those palms look like Cali palms in the rainy season. Probably better looking. lol

 

 

No wonder some people don't like palms.  :-)

Took a week of vacation the last week of April, came back home and it looked like a flamethrower was put on some of the palms.Planted my Sabal Lisa last August and have 4 new fronds since and when i got home all 4 were fried. Spear is green and all the 6 older leaves are green so i was totally perplexed on that. My Livistona Saribus grown in bright shade had all 5 older leaves fried, only green is top most frond and spear. Dypsis Psamophila a couple burned fronds and Dypsis Scottiana sucker with 2 fronds burned.  Avocado tree which i bought about 4 or 5 years ago has about half the leaves burnt( dark burn circles on many leaves). Asked my mom what happened and she said it went up to 97 and no rain and plenty of dry wind. Keeping everything alive now with almost daily hand watering, a real pain.