Texas Drought Forecast to Continue, Perhaps For Years [BARF ALERT]

StateImpact (NPR) ^ | July 19, 2013 | 6:00 AM | Holly Heinrich

[re_nortex]

Now for some bad news: national meteorologists expect the drought to continue or worsen through late summer and early fall in Texas, and ocean patterns are troublingly similar to those during the “drought of record” in the 1950s.

Today, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its latest drought forecast. It predicts the drought will persist or intensify in most of Texas from July through October. But there is one exception — in Far West Texas, August and September rains are expected to bring some relief to an area from Midland to El Paso, according to NOAA meteorologist Victor Murphy.

[re_nortex]

This garbage comes from the usual suspects, NPR, an leftwing Austin radio station and -- get this -- an intern with those outfits. Sure, it's been a tad dry recently here in Texas but July was cool and damp. And my light bill was laughably low from hardly needing the air conditioner. The lawns in my area are still lush and green. And plenty of rains are forecast for mid-August. The Lone Star State, as always, will do just fine and the Lord will continue to Bless Texas!

The article's comment section could use some sanity from FReepers to counteract the AGW alarmists.

[mylife]

In other news Az is expected to remain desert for the foreseeable future.

[9422WMR]

How about some reference for Texas Temperatures?
How do you like it when its cold?

http://www.chron.com/sports/article/Tompkins-Documenting-Texas-coast-s-big-chills-1687256.php

Weather runs in cycles, 15-25-30 years patterns. Last 100 years is but a fly speck on the history of the earth....

[cripplecreek]

We had a drought last summer in the midwest that could last for years, decades even.

This summer we’ve had better than twice the average amount of rain we get per year in the first 6 months of the year. By midnight tonight we’ll have had another 2 + inches over the last 24 hours.

[re_nortex]

While this is anecdotal, it does prove a point. During the month of July, swimmers at the outdoor pool in my neighborhood were complaining about how the water was cool. And, in my opinion, it was. Back in 2011 when we had that string of over 70 days of 100+ degree days, it was like bathwater and not really refreshing.

The facts are that Texas is hot and dry in the summer. It keeps the liberal riffraff away. They can stay in the miserable, depressing, clammy and uncomfortable places like Seattle and Portland.

[Resolute Conservative]

I keep pointing that out but libturds don’t like facts.

[mylife]

This has been a relatively cool summer, but we are way low on water.

[re_nortex]

How do you like it when its cold?

As for me, these recent 100 degree days have been a blessing since I still shiver when I think back to February 2011's Super Bowl week and the miserable cold, snow and ice.

[re_nortex]

By definition Conservatives are good stewards and here in Texas have done an exemplary job of conserving that precious resource. It's the liberals that waste H2O as well as oxygen with every breath they take!

[moehoward]

"clammy and uncomfortable places like Seattle and Portland."

Not this year. Western WA has been like typical Los Angeles weather. Absolutely spectacular around here this year.

[cripplecreek]

Last summer's decades long drought in southern Michigan looked like this back in May.

[re_nortex]

What are the leftists up there saying now? I guess they just clam up and conveniently forget their agenda-pushing predictions of gloom and doom.

[smokingfrog]

One or two small tropical storms in the right places and we’d be caught up on our annual rainfall. The drought is certainly not as bad as it was a few years ago, at least not in SE Texas.

[a fool in paradise]

Can they accurately tell me if it will rain next month?
Can they accurately tell me if it will rain next week?
Can they accurately tell me if it will rain tomorrow?

Then why the HELL would I listen to their doomsday prophecy about the weather years into the future?

[353FMG]

Pretty certain that the drought is caused by the many wind turbines installed in West Texas that have completely altered the ground heat pattern thereby causing Texas climate change.

Now give me a Nobel Prize, dammit!

[cripplecreek]

The leftists up here are busy fighting the horrors of fracking now that some 500 gas wells are being planned so the great drought has been conveniently forgotten.

Its easier to chase an invisible horror than to convince people to mistrust their own eyes.

[re_nortex]

The drought is certainly not as bad as it was a few years ago, at least not in SE Texas.

Dry weather is the norm for those of us here in Texas. This chart, covering a thirteen-year span, shows that only a handful of months over that period been totally drought free: Drought Condition (Percent Area): Texas. Unlike NPR, of course, I see nothing whatsoever abnormal hereabouts. It's the weather -- it'll change! It reminds me of J.P. Morgan's famous quote about what the stock market would do: "It will fluctuate."

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I just got back from a trip through Northern NM and the panhandle of Oklahoma. It is the greenist I have ever seen it in the past 66 years. It is usually hot, dry, desert, prarie. Now it was green, lots of grass, even the area I was raised in as a child was so green I did not recognize it.

It was green clear through to the Glass Mountains west of Enid OK!

[Undecided 2012]

After the drought of 2011, the ranchers around here learned to really stock up their barns. Plus the drought gave them a chance to dig deeper ponds.
I’ll tell ya all the barns I see are packed full with hay
I love 95 plus days with no rain. I like rain just enough to fill the ponds and green the pastures. I’ve been to Portland and Seattle, no thanks.

[re_nortex]

I just got back from a trip through Northern NM and the panhandle of Oklahoma. It is the greenist I have ever seen it in the past 66 years. It is usually hot, dry, desert, prarie. Now it was green, lots of grass, even the area I was raised in as a child was so green I did not recognize it.

And there's a flood warning in effect for OKC. So much for these numbskulled alarmists. Man has nothing at all to with weather...it's always been and will always be Almighty God's Will.