This year, South Florida got one of its driest summers on record

Welcome to one of the driest summers in more than 30 years in South Florida.

The rains of rainy season just have not shown up.

Most of South Florida is still experiencing “severe” drought conditions, even in summer, and coastal Broward County and the Everglades section of Miami-Dade County are in extreme drought conditions.

In fact, the driest areas of South Florida are going through the most extreme drought of any area in the U.S. west of the Mississippi River.

2025 has been the fourth-driest year in Palm Beach County in the past 131 years, according to Drought.gov. Broward County has seen its 10th driest year in Broward in the past 131 years.

According to the South Florida Water Management District, Palm Beach County has had 65% of normal rainfall for the year thus far — more than 1