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Coinciding with the dedication of Everglades National Park, 1947 in south Florida saw two hurricanes and a wet season responsible for 100 inches (250 cm) of rain, ending the decade-long drought. Although there were no human casualties, cattle and deer were drowned and standing water was left in suburban areas for months.
The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise, Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-5107-5; Jewell, Susan (1993). Exploring Wild South Florida: A Guide to Finding the Natural Areas and Wildlife of the Everglades and Florida Keys, Pineapple Press, Inc. ISBN 1-56164-023-9; Lodge, Thomas E. (1994).
Annual rainfall is projected to decrease across the Everglades National Park causing a hydrologic change across the entire region. Dry vegetative communities will outnumber hydric vegetative communities in this particular area. [39] Furthermore, a one-degree increase in atmospheric temperature is the result of a doubling of atmospheric CO 2.
In the area around Memphis, Tennessee and across the state of Mississippi, there are two rainfall maxima in the winter and spring. [44] [45] Across Georgia and South Carolina, the first of the annual precipitation maxima occurs in late winter, during February or March. [46] [47] Alabama has an annual rainfall maximum in winter or spring and a ...
Deserts form in multiple ways, including rain shadows, or when rain falls on the side of a mountain that faces the wind and dry, sinking air leaves downwind areas with sparse rainfall.
This year, Port Everglades won a $32 million Resilient Florida Infrastructure Grant from the state which will fund a project to replace the aging bulkheads on the north end of the port. The new ...
The Everglades has an immense capacity for water storage, owing to the permeable limestone beneath the exposed land. Most of the water arrives in the form of rainfall, and a significant amount is stored in the limestone. Water evaporating from the Everglades becomes rain over metropolitan areas, providing the fresh water supply for the region.
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