[Watery Foundation. September 25, 2013]: Florida is a place with low “water supply stress”? An ambitious new study tries to score the “surface water supply stress” for the whole country and does not find much water stress for Florida. Even though Florida is not as bad off as portions of the arid West, it still…
[Suwannee Democrat, Joyce Marie Taylor, September 26, 2013] Jasper — There’s something in the air in White Springs and it’s not the fragrance of blossoming flowers or trees. It’s a pungent odor of sulphur that is unmistakable, although, it is also a welcome sign that water conditions for North Florida could be improving. White Sulphur…
(Al Jazeera America, September 12, 2013 by Patricia Sagastume): Mosquito-borne disease once contained to metro areas in tropics gaining foothold in US, possibly due to climate change. Marty Baum, 59, dragged his feverish, achy bones out of bed on a hot, humid day in early September, lathered himself with mosquito repellent and attended a clean-water…
The following is the statement from U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker on August 12, 2013 about a NOAA disaster declaration for the Oyster Fishery along Florida’s west coast: “U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today declared a commercial fishery failure for the oyster fishery along the west coast of Florida. The fishery resource disaster…
Like usual, it began raining this afternoon at our home in Ft. Caroline. We have thunderstorms almost every afternoon in our neck of the woods. But today it was different. The sky was nearly black with clouds. The wind began swirling and the rain went from vertical to horizontal. Before long, we were in the…
Heat is one of the leading weather-related killer in the United States, resulting in hundreds of fatalities each year. In the disastrous heat wave of 1980, more than 1,250 people died. In the heat wave of 1995 more than 700 deaths in the Chicago area were attributed to heat, making this the deadliest weather event…
Florida Politic contributor Milt Hays Jr. visited Suwannee County, Florida recently and took some photos of ongoing flooding in that area… The first photo is of a field off of SR 252. Is was taken on Sunday, July 29, 2012 and the area is indicated by the red star on the below map… The second…
This blog featured Florida’s water woes and its impact on Keystone Heights, Florida area lakes. After receiving multiple inches of rain from Tropical Storms Beryl and Debby, many hoped it would end the crisis. Not so fast…read about it in the Florida Times-Union.
A few days ago I wrote about recent rains in Florida and how all of the standing water means to be on the lookout for swarms of mosquitoes…well those pesky blood suckers are swarming now. Tropical storm Debby left the area on June 26, 2012 after dropping 11.35″ of rain on our yard (other areas…
Several major rain events across Florida over the past couple of months has created a lot of standing water. And a lot standing water breeds swarms of mosquitoes. There are 80 species of mosquitoes that have been identified in Florida. There are more species in Florida than in any other state. 33 species of mosquitoes…
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