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The South Florida Watershed Journal

• Did anyone have winter?

  This winter's warm streak continues.
  
  In Naples, there's only been eight days that failed to rise above 70° F.
  
  You can count all 8 days on the chart above.
  (This week has been particularly warm.)
  Compare that to last winter and the one before that which averaged [...]
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• After the fire

  Jarhead eight months later
  February 2012
  [...]
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• Spring drought repeat?

  The swamp had a huge wildfire last spring …
  
  Could this spring be shaping up the same?
  
  Major wildfires tend to coincide
  with deep drops in the water table
  To answer that we can look to water levels.
  
  In general, we know that as water levels [...]
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• Last night's rain

  Naples and La Belle got hammered ...
  but the Big Cypress and Everglades stayed mostly dry [...]
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• But don't kid yourself ...

  South Florida is still winning
  the "yearly" rainfall race
  [...]
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• Panhandle moves south

  The winter half of the year is our seasonal drought in south Florida ...
  
  But up on the panhandle, continental fronts bring regular rains.
  
  Winter precipitation is plentiful on the panhandle
  
  Less frequently those fronts find their way south.
  
  That's when south Florida gets its winter [...]
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• Advanced birding

  "This looks complicated."
  [...]
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• Snail kite escargot

  I'm always running into "real" apple snail shells.
  
  Compare that to the snail kites who are finding more of the fakes.
  
  As seen at downstream end
  of the plugged Turner River Canal Rarely if ever have I seen a live adult apple snail ...
  
  But then again' [...]
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• Spring brown out?

  "I'm thirsty!"
  ' [...]
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• Plant that turned its back on spring?

  Is this plant turning green for spring ...
  
  Or is something else going on instead?
  
  Turns green with a splash any season
  The resurrection fern shows no such seasonal loyalty.
  
  It only turns green whenever it rains.
  
  
  Usually through spring it's shriveled up and [...]
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