Florida’s lack of rain the past few months, even by dry season standards, left airboats stuck in the wetlands of the Everglades. A Broward County Fire Rescue airboat had to be freed Wednesday after getting stuck in low water in the Everglades after helping to free a civilian airboat. Over the past two months, drought conditions have developed and worsened over a sizable swath of the Florida Peninsula. As of April 18, about half the state (46 percent) – an area including an estimated 10.2 million residents – was classified in drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor analysis. This is the largest swath of the Sunshine state in drought since April 2, 2013. The worst of the drought was a swath of central and southwest Florida, including Tampa/St. Petersburg, Fort Myers, Naples, Melbourne, and parts of the Orlando metro area. Orlando International Airport had yet to receive any measurable rainfall this month through April 19, only the second time that has happened dating to 1953. The paltry 0.10 inch of rain…