Bring on the red.

Got a random .58 inches of rain last night. Puts me at 1 inch for June so far

My station after that rain last night is at .44 for june. It would be funny if we got a huge downpour the last day of the month to make it average. Florida is like that sometimes lol. All indicators are that the pattern will shift; if you look at the averages for the months there is an indicator that this pattern is somewhat frequent in june, then levels out, with slightly lower rain totals on the west coast in june than elsewhere. Not by much though, so still a bit of an extreme event, but the west wind flow pattern is known for being unpleasant here especially when the water heats up. I had a low of 86 yesterday morning, which was lowered to 79 at midnight last night with the rain. Never seen that before but the water is over 90 now.

12 minutes ago, flplantguy said:

My station after that rain last night is at .44 for june. It would be funny if we got a huge downpour the last day of the month to make it average. Florida is like that sometimes lol. All indicators are that the pattern will shift; if you look at the averages for the months there is an indicator that this pattern is somewhat frequent in june, then levels out, with slightly lower rain totals on the west coast in june than elsewhere. Not by much though, so still a bit of an extreme event, but the west wind flow pattern is known for being unpleasant here especially when the water heats up. I had a low of 86 yesterday morning, which was lowered to 79 at midnight last night with the rain. Never seen that before but the water is over 90 now.

I wish the water tenp was still 90 in january lol. Freezes would not be a thing.

On 6/20/2026 at 5:53 PM, HudsonBill said:

Im officialy throwing in the towel here. I dont have the time to soak an acre worth of plants everyday. It dies it dies. This area of the state is nowhere near tropical or anything of the sort. It's a desert with humidity. We only get rain from tropical systems and its cold af every winter. If I ever decide to grow anything again ill.move to a place where the stuff actualy grows.

Bit of friendly advice, don't move to anywhere in Texas. This sounds like you're starting to get the same as we've been having for the last few years.

Oceania is where I'd go.

On 6/22/2026 at 9:14 PM, kinzyjr said:

I guess at least the longest day of the year is in the rear-view mirror and the days will get shorter now. 🤷‍♂️

yeah they are getting shorter very slowly for now. Clouds matter much more than day length. Hopefully we will get some clouds(and even better rain) so palms and people aren't getting cooked.

had a cloudburst last evening, my bucket says about 3/4 inch in about 40 mins. At times it rained quite heavy with some puddles int he yard. Hoping it slowed the premature yellowing of leaves. The radar at the time looked like we got hit by a suddenly appearing higharea a few miles wide. I'll take it and whatever we get. Ironically this was the day after our once a week irrigation day.

Here, my rain gauges recorded ~0.25 in of rain. Just outside of downtown, it rained hard enough to inundate the right lanes of the highways.

My yard is approaching 7 in. of rain for a month where the average is close to 9in. Still a deficit, but hard to complain when there are other areas below an inch of rain.

Mulching and amending with organic material looks to be a necessity for Florida palm gardening anymore. @sonoranfans also mentioned dense planting and canopy to shelter from direct sun. The benefit of protection during cold events is a nice bonus.

If you're just starting to grow palms in Florida, this is a good foundation for dealing with our seemingly unending droughts and cold fronts followed by record heat in the spring.

34 minutes ago, kinzyjr said:

Here, my rain gauges recorded ~0.25 in of rain. Just outside of downtown, it rained hard enough to inundate the right lanes of the highways.

My yard is approaching 7 in. of rain for a month where the average is close to 9in. Still a deficit, but hard to complain when there are other areas below an inch of rain.

Mulching and amending with organic material looks to be a necessity for Florida palm gardening anymore. @sonoranfans also mentioned dense planting and canopy to shelter from direct sun. The benefit of protection during cold events is a nice bonus.

If you're just starting to grow palms in Florida, this is a good foundation for dealing with our seemingly unending droughts and cold fronts followed by record heat in the spring.

the dense planting I saw worked especially well in the arizona desert, the best gardens there are densely planted. Most years in florida its less of a concern for dry/heat protection, as we don't have many droughts where we have restricted irrigation for several months. If we are going to trend to a drier climate it would be wise to bunch plants for both cold and hot/dry conditions. Bunching palms is also very effective in limiting hurricane damage below cat 3, not sure it how much it helps with cat 3 and above.

Its raining hard now, sounds like a waterfall. but radar says it likely wont last. Sarasota and inland to the east do appear to be getting big rain on radar. End the drought!

Ended up with roughly an inch of rain. There's a decent chance this will put us at our near our average for the month.

Driest June in Tampa’s recorded history dating back to 1890 is on tap. At my location, I haven’t had measurable rain in 4 weeks. My monthly total is less than .60”. We have things like Plumeria persistently wilted and oaks dropping leaves like it’s October. Not sure where we go from here. I don’t get excited about a day or two of SE winds because the west wind will return soon enough. The driest summer since 1890 is on tap. I expect watering to be further restricted to 0 times per week.

If we don’t get some rain in the next few days, this will be the 2ND DRIEST JUNE EVER RECORDED here. If we do get some rain, it will probably be the 3rd. We are shy about 8 inches so far, from the average June.

Every year this seems to get worse.

I kind of wish I had done the front yard in all Cuban and Native palms that would be happy with just a little help, in this crapulance.

At this point I kind of wonder how getting normal rains is even possible.

 

Ehat i mean by that is has something changed? All this humidity and can't even get 1 rain shower a week. Up north if it got half this hunid it was gaurunteed to rain. Just seems impossible everything drys up when it comes anywhere near the west coast

Preliminary dats for june shows most of the state below for the month with the weat coast in the top driest junes on record. A hotter atmosphere holds more moisture but also takes more forcing to generate rainfall. The result is drier on the daily chances with rain "bombs" when it does rain and large amounts. Florida is used to this pattern but it has gotten amplified recently and we are seeing that play out. Im hoping the pattern shifts for the rest of the summer and fall.

I'm now 12.63" shy of normal for the year.

Here's this morning's garbage projections:

Good amount of rain last 2 days. Just that little bit and everything looks more lush.

Finished June with ~8.0in. - 8.5in. of rain. Still a touch below average, but a lot better than some other spots on the map. July started off well, with over 2 inches of rain yesterday.

This still sucks.

1 hour ago, kinzyjr said:

Finished June with ~8.0in. - 8.5in. of rain. Still a touch below average, but a lot better than some other spots on the map. July started off well, with over 2 inches of rain yesterday.

Wow I believe I'm at 2 inches for all of June

we had lots of clouds but minimal rain yesterday. I appreciate the clouds that reduce the sun heating. The winds out of the west overcoming the windshear has left the west coast particularly dry and often cloudless. Glad I isolated almost all my wet lovers in raised beds or clayish soil. Still, the crowns should be growing back fast after MIlton damage but the are not. Still many of the wet lovers have small crowns of leaves meaning less shade overall. Shading the ground slows radiative heating and water evaporation from the soil, not getting much help there as shade is noticeably lower than pre Milton. Glad I generally planted the more drought tolerant palms in the most sun exposed positions. My water loving palms would be cooked by now out front.

3 hours ago, HudsonBill said:

Wow I believe I'm at 2 inches for all of June

Lucky you. I had 1/3 of that.

June ended up at .84 inches for me, and half that was the last day of the month, the rest very small amounts over three days mid month. July is already double that the first day lol, and im happy for it and hoping it continues🤞.