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• "Plan B" when monsoons fail

  Florida doesn’t have monsoons,
  
  although the summer showers are often mistaken as such.
  
  
  What makes them different?
  
  Florida’s summer convective showers are fed by “low atmosphere” lows (caused by daytime heating), stoked by upper atmosphere instability and super charged by colliding landward-flowing [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at November 22, 2009, 10:36pm in Environment

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• Water ...

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  Water fountains are
  water cycles in miniature:
  inflow equals outflow,
  minus evaporation. [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at November 22, 2009, 2:00pm in Environment

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• Fall "state of mind"

  What is it about fall --
  
  Whether up on the "continent" ...
  
  Or down here on the south Florida "peninsula" --
  
  That makes it such a nostalgic season? [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at November 21, 2009, 10:29pm in Environment

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• Keep clear!

  
  Keep clear!
  Water gushing through a spillway
  is beautiful, but dangerous [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at November 21, 2009, 3:00pm in Environment

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• Pioneer trail

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  Trips down Loop Road are few and far between,
  
  Flights above are even rarer.
  
  Here’s a view of that road and its main hamlet -- Pinecrest -- from the sky.
  
  
  
  The back story on the 8-mile eastern spur of this lime rock road is that [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at November 20, 2009, 10:30pm in Environment

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• [nt]

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  Not wading birds,
  but rather crows on a wire ...
  "waiting." [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at November 20, 2009, 2:00pm in Environment

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• City of Cape Coral: a little too friendly with cruel circus

  

  On Monday, the Cole Bros. Circus arrives in Cape Coral for three days of shows.

  Elephants in traveling circuses commonly suffer from neglect, inadequate veterinary care and inhumane handling. The Cole Bros. Circus has a particularly poor reputation. In 2003, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) cited Cole [...]

  From News for Florida animal advocates at November 20, 2009, 10:29am in Environment

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• Proposed name change

  Florida is full of water bodies with “catchy” names –
  
  Ichetucknee, Caloosahatchee, Withlacoochee, Apalachicola, Okeechobee, Loxahatchee, Suwannee … the list goes on.
  
  Does the same apply to Florida’s roadways?
  
  
  Tamiami Trail comes to mind.
  
  Promoters dubbed it so, with its lyrical [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at November 19, 2009, 10:30pm in Environment

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• winter water barrels

  winter water barrels
  also known as our aquifers
  are full ... but falling [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at November 19, 2009, 2:00pm in Environment

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• Sophomore slump

  The first batch of cold air in late October felt good,
  
  But it also made us greedy:
  
  When would the second arrive?
  
  
  We had to wait awhile – call it a sophomore slump – but finally it came this weekend.
  
  [...]
  From The South Florida Watershed Journal at November 18, 2009, 10:25pm in Environment

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