[Retired Greyhound]

I live in CA. I am accustomed to these things. Didn’t know this could happen in FL, what with the humidity.

[Sax]

Yeah, we dry out here some years. Heat and sun wilt everything and without the rain it's a tinderbox. Dry palmetto leaves are the worst. They go up like gas soaked paper.

[dragnet2]

They can get a lot of fires down there in FL. But personally, I’d rather deal with the wests wild fires than heat and humidity. High humidity makes me angry and hostile. I couldn’t deal with it.

[N. Theknow]

Florida peninsula is the exact opposite of California.

California gets its rain in the winter and summer dries out and wildfires break out.

Florida peninsula gets its rain June through October and then it dries out and wildfires break out.

Fronts move across the country and hit the Florida panhandle and fizzle out. Peninsula only gets lower humidity and maybe a brief shower that hardly registers on a rain gauge.

Here's a chart of our averages. However, the past two years and this year especially have been dry in mid-peninsula with a 3" rainfall in 12 hours the first week of April and hardly a drop since.

Winter Haven, which is in the middle of the peninsula, has two chains of lakes connected by canals needs some serious rainfall to bring things back to normal.