‘Exceptional’ drought nearly gone in Texas
AAS Salsa Blog 5/31/12
Exceptional drought nearly gone in Texas
The latest drought monitor released today shows less than 1 percent of Texas is in the worst form of drought while 97 percent is at least abnormally dry.
Drought conditions have been improving steadily statewide thanks to a wetter-than-normal winter (and in some parts of the state, the spring, too). On May 2, the National Weather Service declared La Niña, the Pacific Ocean-induced weather pattern that typically creates drier-than-normal winters and hotter-than-normal summer in Texas, officially over.
Thursdays drought report, a snapshot of statewide conditions from Tuesday, is the first once since March 29, 2011, to show less than 1 percent of the state in exceptional drought. That report had zero percent. This also comes after a bruising 2011 drought that peaked with 87.99 percent of the state in exceptional drought in October and left the entire state in some form of drought from September to November.
I pray to all the rain/water gods & deities and mother nature that we continue to receive the life saving water we need to live.
And to all Texans out there - don't let this fool you. You still need to conserve and change your water wasting ways. This is only a temporary reprieve.