After watching this map for years, this doesn't look too bad to me.
Posted on 09/29/2015 5:16:53 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
This week’s drought map from the U.S. Drought Monitor shows a familiar picture of Texas: about 60 percent of the state somewhere between abnormally dry and being in extreme drought, affecting more than 12 million people. At the start of the summer, that drought percentage was only 4.6. Here are five things you need to know about the current weather and long-range forecast, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Aaron Treadway.
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After hurricane season will the results be the same. It’s called weather.
After watching this map for years, this doesn't look too bad to me.
Mother Nature must be a right wing bigot.
She doesn’t adhere to equality of rain distributions. So non PC of her and acts like a priveleged 1%er.
Oklahoma has had record rainfall this year, and is still above all of the past years totals.
Been raining here off and on in North Georgia now for about 2 weeks. Been making it damned hard to get the roofing and some of the siding replaced on my house. I’d gladly send some Texas’ way if I knew how.
It’s been one of the more pleasant summers in recent memory here in SE Texas. The pecan and cotton crops are lookin good.
5. Although El Niño phenomena are typically associated with cooler and wetter conditions, a stronger El Niño often will delay the heaviest rains from fall into the winter.
“Been raining here off and on in North Georgia now for about 2 weeks.”
A lot of that rain ended up in Illinois too.
Yes you are right, Houstons summer has been wonderful compared to the scorchers we usually have!
I’m in Houston and my cistern is at 100% capacity right now.
Don’t need any more rain. Makes it harder to pick up the dog poop in the back yard.
Have you noticed the nip in the air? Winter is almost upon us; yay!
I just came in from outside, the tree trimmers are here and the weather is fabulous right now.
To all you folks thinking about moving in here , I am lying, it is really scorching hot and it is that way 11 months out of the year. That other month we have a hurricane and it rains buckets. Snort)))))))
Hmmmm....so l live in a “severe drought” area? Western Oregon? I don’t think so.
I actually DO have buckets laid out to prevent my back yard from flooding.
Some day I’ll splurge on a gutter system, but until then I must rely on kitty litter buckets lined up around my garage.
It takes 2 days to pump out my cistern to 20%.
I went across northern New Mexico and the Panhandle of Oklahoma two years ago and again this year. It is the first two times I’ve seen that area green in over sixty five years! I was born in NE New Mexico, in the heart of the Dust Bowl.
Lake Optima still is dry as a bone. It has never had water in it.
I’m in East Texas, Lufkin area.
We had record rainfall this spring, lake 100 yards away was higher than anyone has seen it in 30 years.
Rain stopped, almost nothing since then, finally got an inch day before yesterday and some last night but I haven’t looked at my gauge today to see how much. Glad to see some rain finally, it’s been really dry here this summer but fortunately not nearly as hot as it usually gets in summer.
I think 102ºF was the highest we got this summer, usually gets to at least 104ºF in July and August. In 1998 or so we saw it get to 107ºF in the shade...so this summer has been a treat...
That said, the last 3 or 4 years have been really dry here, burn bans all summer, I looked last year and only 4 counties in the entire state of Texas didn’t have burn bans. And they were talking about it...
Been here in Texas for over 2/3’s of my life and abnormally dry is normal.
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