Quiz: How many seasons are there in a year?

[Robert Sobczak]

Can you guess how many seasons
there are in south Florida?

a. 12
b. 3
c. 2
d. 4

Find the surprise answer in Go Hydrology! 

[Robert Sobczak]

[Swamp Hunter]

I usually think 2 seasons (hot and mild) but in terms of landscape hydrology, I see we actually do have 4 distinct seasons. Interesting. If Texas had our annual rainfall they would think they had gone to heaven. Thank God for the mud, rain and swamp angels (mosquitos) or mans attempts to completley drain the Everglades may have succeeded. Water is South Florida's lifeblood..Im a little surprised how much rain shows on the graph from last weekend. Hurricane season will soon be here and that cooincides with the Sheetflow Season.. Check your insurance now. I love the sound of rain on a tin roof or trailer.

 

 

[Amazon Bill]

I tell people four seasons. They think I am crazy. Obvious are summer and winter. However there is that time between winter and summer where the light green leaves form on the trees. Spring leaves I call them, appearing on the West Indies mahogany in late February/early March. They last about 4-6 weeks, then dump, and those hard green and copper colored leaves form for the summer sauna.  In the fall near Vero and late winter in West Palm the red maples turn color.  I point this out to people riding with me on the Turnpike up north of YeeHaw Junction. The trees turn yellow, red and purple up there. Most people don't even see it until you point it out. Off course the Bald Cypress is a giveaway seasons change. Its spring now. The Pines have their light green 'candle tips' reaching up to the sky.

[Amazon Bill]

Speaking of fresh new green leaves on the mahagony. These are the darker summer leaves starting since May starts Tuesday! Time to start planning that October trip to WWW.

[Swamp Hunter]

We have the best of both worlds with a combination of Temperate and Semi-Tropical trees. As you pointed out the Cypress trees are decidious and the Red Maples of the Everglades swamp turn red in fall. New growth appears in the Springtime, even with Live Oaks, but we also grow Winter vegetables..

 

Im not sure if our budding plants are responding to our subtle weather changes or longer days of sun and rain or both?

[Esther Luft]

Just one - Paddling Season, starts Jan 1st ends on Dec 31st.  Get your blades wet and go.

[Robert Sobczak]

Water's up in Turner River again (thanks to recent rain), but paddleable doesn't mean paddleable when you factor in mosquitoes, too.  Thus, I tend to agree with your season delineation.