JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — This blog is written & updated weekly by *me* - Mike Buresh.
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The Atlantic Basin remains remarkable quiet (largely thanks to a strong El Nino)... see & read updates every day at “Talking the Tropics With Mike”. We continue the streak of the latest to have a hurricane develop over the Atlantic Basin in the satellite era - since 1966. Only two years are known to have not ever had at least one Atlantic hurricane - 1907 & 1914.
Tuesday, Sept. 22nd is the autumnal equinox when our day & nights are approximately equal as the earth continues to its max tilt away from the sun which is the winter solstice (Dec. 21st). So cooler temps. are on the way! We still have not had an overnight low below 70 degrees since July 2nd. The average date is Aug. 24th.
After a sputtering start to our wet season, Aug. & Sept. have been wetter. That’s good news considering our long term drought began one year ago in Sept., 2025. Northeast Fl. & Southeast Ga. remain in drought, but conditions have improved recently. It will still take a lot of rain to get our aquifers back to at least average.
The local area is not in ‘extreme’ or worse drought for the first time since last fall.
