Posted on 07/26/2007 1:20:29 PM PDT by blam
Texas Drought-Free After a Dry Decade
Thursday July 26, 2007 9:01 PM
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) - For the first time in at least a decade, Texas was declared drought-free Thursday.
``We've gotten so much rain this year, we've pretty much made up for the past few years' drought conditions in several areas of the state,'' said John Nielsen-Gammon, the state's climatologist and a professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University.
Only isolated areas in the northern Panhandle, far West Texas and along the eastern margins of the state are below normal when it comes to rainfall, and they're aren't so dry to be considered in still in a drought, he said.
There's been so much rain, in fact, that flooding has become a problem in some areas, and many farmers are struggling to salvage crops that remain under water, Nielsen-Gammon said. At least 16 deaths have been blamed on heavy rain since mid-June, and property damage has been widespread.
The U.S. Drought Monitor, connected with the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration, shows severe or extreme drought conditions in parts of the Southeast and much of the West, but Texas and most of the nation's mid-section is drought-free.
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I’m on the ground and can confirm this report. Back to you.
79 deg here in NE Tx right now
Pretty picture but not a pretty site for those affected by this much rainfall. I have a brother that lives down NE of Austin and he said he couldn’t even walk in his back yard without bogging down to his ankle and he has a really nice grassed backyard. Too much rain can be as bad as not enough for sure.
Exactly. My son lives down SW of Houston and there is even too much rain for the rice planted down there.
Don’t know about the cotton. Can’t get the corn in till it stops raining! 70% chance of rain tomorrow and 70% Saturday.
The wild sunflowers are about 15’ tall down by the creek!
Must be those darn wind turbines in West Texas slowing down the global atmosphere!;^)
It’s just like the government to certify us as being “drought free” right after monsoon season is over. I don’t expect to see appreciable rainfall for another 2 months.
(S. Tex)Farmers fear ‘total disaster’ if rain doesn’t stop
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA072707.1B.agrain.345d56c.html
Per one weatherman it rained 23 days in June. Per my guessing it has rained 22 days in July.
My electric bill is grateful for all the cool weather, but I am going insane ~ ~ I NEED SUNSHINE!!!
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