Pensacola, Fla.....driest March on record

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Pensacola is set to record the driest March on record.
So far, Pensacola has received 24 hundredths of an inch of rainfall this month...a normal March averages more than six inches of precipitation.
The dryness is beginning to affect area produce farmers.
Grower Bruce Holland says if his butter bean and pea fields don't get a little rain soon, he'll have to postpone some crucial plantings.
Bruce Holland/Farmer; "We'll have to wait a little while, we'll give it a little while, if we don't get any rain we may have to plant 'em and put the irrigations on 'em to get 'em up."
Holland says with farm fuel costs almost doubling in the last two years, running irrigation equipment greatly eats into already slim profit margins.
The area's largest row crops -- peanuts and cotton -- are generally planted in May, so farmers have some time to wait for rain, but the dryness is already beginning to make field work like discing difficult.

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DRIEST MARCH EVER during March 2006 at the following locations:-

Tampa FL trace tied 1907
Hollywood FL 0.02in
Orlando FL 0.02in
Ft Lauderdale FL 0.03in
St Pete FL 0.06in ( 6th driest)
Key West FL 0.05in (8th driest)
Naples FL 0.08in (5th driest)
Daytona Beach FL 0.08in
Salisbury MD 0.15in
Richmond VA 0.20in
Lakeland FL 0.22in
Mobile AL 0.24in
Pensacola FL 0.24in
Melbourne FL 0.25in ( 3rd driest)
Ft Pierce FL 0.27in ( 3rd driest)
Ft Myers FL 0.32in (10th driest tied 1955)
Roanoke VA 0.35in
Atlantic City NJ 0.37in
Stuart FL 0.40in ( 3rd driest)
Asheville NC 0.51in (2nd driest)
Norfolk VA 0.52in
Vero Beach FL 0.53in (5th driest)
Danville VA 0.56in
Reading PA 0.62in
Sarasota FL 0.67in ( 7th driest)
Blacksburg VA 0.69in
Lynchburg VA 0.76in (3rd driest)
Central Park NY 0.80in
Philadelphia PA 0.91in (4th driest)
Trenton NJ 0.93in
Bluefield WV 1.71in (4th driest)

-justin-