[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.

[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!

[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!

[Sherman Logan]

Except for one of the comments, there is nothing here about AGW. Just attempts to forecast drought conditions based on normal meteorological science.

Let’s not project liberal propaganda into areas where is doesn’t really exist.

There were massive droughts in the 30s and 50, and no particular reason to assume they won’t happen again. AGW or not.

[bgill]

Cool and damp? Maybe up by DFW but that’s not the case south of you. It’s been in the 100s for weeks. Last week it hit 110. I don’t that’s cool in anyone’s book.

[GeronL]

Texas has always been a hot and relatively dry place.

There are only one or two natural lakes in the whole state, and its a BIG state.

If AC had not been invented, who would live here?

[Windflier]

Sure, it's been a tad dry recently here in Texas but July was cool and damp.

I don't know what part of Texas you live in, but in the DFW area it's been blistering hot for weeks and weeks. I know, because I work outdoors in it every day.

I think our a/c has been running 24/7 now for at least a couple of months.

We haven't had nearly as many 100+ degree days this summer, but it's still hot as hell out there.