I Live in Worst Part of Drought-Stricken Florida

I was checking out the news on the Web this morning. There was an interesting piece on one of the sites ranking the worst drought-stricken states in the country.  Texas was #1, followed by Florida. A map of Florida was shown and the areas most severely affected by drought were marked a deep red.  A narrow band of this color extended from the Jacksonville area westward across northern Florida, passing directly over (and encompassing all of) my home county of Alachua.  On the other hand, south Florida, which has undergone several severe storms in the past couple of weeks, stands as the only part of the state not classified as a drought zone.

I don't know how long this rainfall shortage will last.  Then again, I heard that there are parts of southern Georgia that haven't been rained on in over a year.  But although we're not receiving the precipitation we should be receiving in northern Florida, the air is usually saturated with moisture, quite unlike the climate in an arid desert state like Arizona...