TABLE 1(a) — Continued 



Year Date of Initial Report 



Location of Rainfall (inches), Month;' 

 Red Tide Weather Station 



1908 Reported by Taylor (1917) as killing sponges, without any mention of dead fish. 

 This is probably an outbreak of sponge blight rather than red tide (Smith, l':*'^!) 



1916 October 3 (Taylor, 1917) 



1946* November 20 (Gunter, et al., 

 1948) 



Boca Grande to 

 San Carlos Bay 

 Naples 



12.56, July; 8.22, August; 

 5.34, September; Fort %-ers 

 9.23, September; 2.03, 

 October; 9.69, November; 

 Naples 

 In October 1946, Fort Meyers, Punta Gorda and the Everglades, Florida were flooded by 

 unusual tides in the wake of a hurricane on October 7-8. Charlotte Harbor and part of 

 the Everglades can be considered as having been thoroughly mixed with sea water, which 

 drained into the Gulf of Mexico in considerable volume. November was warmer by 6.1° 

 than any previous November on record (71.2° mean for Florida). October was 1.1° above 

 normal and warmer than any October in five years for the state as a whole. 



1947* March (Gunter, et al., 1948) Florida Bay 



1947*t June 20 (Gunter, et al., 1948) Bonita Beach 



(South of Fort 

 %ers) 



1947*t July 18 (Gunter, et al., 1948) Venice to 



Sarasota 



1952 October 25 



Boca Grande and 

 Southwest of 

 Sanibel 



10.37, March; Captiva 

 8.94, March; Fort Meyers 

 Greatest March rainfall on 

 record for state with ex- 

 ception of 1930 

 6.47, May; 12.84, June; 

 Fort %-ers (2.69 inches 



fell after June 20) 



3.34, May; 13.33, June; 



Punta Gorda 



(.04 inches fell sifter 



June 20) 



13.06, June; 11.44, July; 



Sarasota (7.64 inches after 



July 18) 



18.25, July; Punta Gorda 



(12.72 after July 18) Floods 



in Okeechobee region diiring 



June and July 



12.35, September; 8.34, 



October; Fort %ers (none 



after October 25) 



■*A11 outbreaks marked with an asterisk are considered by Gunter, et al. (1948) as 

 representing a single occurrence. Since discoloration and fish mortality disappeared 

 between each of the listed dates, they are here considered as separate. 



tThe interval with no fish kills separating these two outbreaks is of the order of 

 two weeks and may or may not indicate separate dinoflagellate populations." 



Slobodkin then presented a table for comparison with table I (a) above. 



"TABLE 1(b). --Mean Rainfall (inches) by Months at Five Florida Weather Stations 



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