{"id":3321,"date":"2026-10-06T06:40:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T10:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=3321"},"modified":"2026-10-06T06:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T10:40:21","slug":"rainy-season-drought-left-peace-river-flow-below-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=3321","title":{"rendered":"Rainy Season Drought Left Peace River Flow Below Normal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/screenshot-1791281879506.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"619\" height=\"636\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/screenshot-1791281879506.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/screenshot-1791281879506.png 619w, https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/screenshot-1791281879506-292x300.png 292w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Central Florida&#8217;s normal rainy season typically runs from June to September, but this year&#8217;s spotty and often sparse rainfall has left the Peace River at streamflow volumes the U.S. Geologic Survey classify as between Below Normal to Extremely Below Normal.<br>The effects of this year&#8217;s El Nino may result in a wetter-than-normal winter dry season that could turn this trend around by spring, when streamflow is typically at its lowest.<br>This comes at a time when scientists at the Southwest Florida Water Management District are predicting the Upper Peace River will meet its minimum flow for the next 20 years.<br>Meanwhile, discharge from the structure on Saddle Creek south of Lake Hancock remains at zero to maintain the lake&#8217;s level. <br>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/screenshot-1791281519749.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"565\" height=\"631\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/screenshot-1791281519749.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/screenshot-1791281519749.png 565w, https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/screenshot-1791281519749-269x300.png 269w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Central Florida&#8217;s normal rainy season typically runs from June to September, but this year&#8217;s spotty and often sparse rainfall has left the Peace River at streamflow volumes the U.S. Geologic Survey classify as between Below Normal to Extremely Below Normal.The effects of this year&#8217;s El Nino may result in a wetter-than-normal winter dry season that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gci"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3326,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3321\/revisions\/3326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}