Drought — Metro Palm Beach County, Florida

2025-08-01 to 2025-08-31 · Metro Palm Beach County, Florida

Event narrative

A lack of substantial rainfall led to the worsening of Moderate (D1) to Severe (D2) drought across metro Palm Beach County to Severe (D2) to Extreme (D3) drought during the month of August.

Wider weather episode

Prolonged periods of dry weather across much of Southeast Florida since the winter months led to drought conditions entering August. Summer rainfall focused over western portions of the peninsula allowed for some improvement of the drought over the southern Everglades but areas of the east coast metropolitan areas suffered worsening of the drought due to limited rainfall.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1290938. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.