Just 1.56 inches of rain was measured through Sunday at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach since Jan. 1.
A siege of hot weather that toppled a century-old record in West Palm Beach ... at the airport since the year 2000 was 99 degrees on Aug. 13, 2006, according to the National Weather Service.
The culmination was an average January temperature of 64.3 degrees as measured at Palm Beach International Airport ... meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Miami.