This is the lowest my lake has been since I moved onto it nearly 19 years ago . (although I have fished it for 50 years)

The last time it was nearly this low was around 15 years ago . At full pool the level will be 2 feet up the bulkhead !

Same down here.

I noticed the local canals, creeks and the 2 main rivers are showing bottom at some points and are worse the farther north and east you get.

Okeechobee is 11.7 which is borderline this time of the year.

Never fear, once the rain starts it won’t stop

Mike

We are dry here too, the St John’s will have a few inches tidal during full moons. And the wind blowing the mouth of the river, will back up the river some. Some people’s shallow wells have dried up too.

We are having the same conditions all over south Louisiana. The Mississippi River is extremely low for this time of year. And, the level in Atchafalaya Basin is approaching summer-time lows. This time of year the Basin is typically extremely high from the spring run-off from up north.

It will probably take a tropical storm or hurricane (heaven forbid) coming through this summer to get us back to normal water levels.

We are the opposite in Northern Illinois. Our local rivers are still blown out from multiple days of flooding rains.

I posted about this in another thread. A higher percentage of the country as a whole is in some form of drought right now than has ever been recorded. They started the drought monitor in 1980.

The interior west basically had a non-existent winter and snow pack. The southeast is experiencing severe drought, which is very unusual for this time of year.

We need a major pattern shift otherwise wildfires are going to be bad this summer. El Niño is projected to overtake neutral oscillation sometime this summer. An El Niño pattern generally means wetter weather down south and drier weather to the north.

The only 2 states that have zero drought are North Dakota and Michigan.

https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu

It was dry here but poured all morning , wild thunderstorms woke me up at 3 am and it didn’t quit til about 8