Late May and June are our traditional soaking in season.
Water's have to soak in first before they can climb up the wetland ladder, where they crest in the pine flatwoods.
Here's a graphical display of current swamp stage relative to major major ecological landscapes and historical statistics for Big Cypress Nat'l Preserve, as of Monday.
Our quickest wet season out of the gate was 2005. It shot up into pine country by mid June, and stayed there for 6 straight months. Last year the pinelands got their feet wet for 4 months in comparison.
But that's getting ahead of ourselves:
The waters have to rise into the cypress first. That's already happening in some places.
4 comments:
Looks like this could be a pleasing wet season, hydrologically speaking. The cypress look lonely without water.
So glad things are finally getting started. You have more patience than I. Lets keep those rains coming.
Thanks for you comments. Yes, those cypress are lonely without water. They'd already have some if we didn't have such a dry winter and spring. The water had a long way to climb out of that hole.
This is very interesting. I have never seen a swamp without water and been aware that I was seeing a swamp without water. Once lived by a swamp and always seemed to go when it was raining or had just rained. They build beautiful boardwalks through some.
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