Texas Drought 2011: Recent Rains Lead To Less Than Half Of State In Worst Drought Category

LUBBOCK, Texas -- Recent rains in parts of Texas have led to less than half of the state being in the worst category of drought for the first time since last spring.

The U.S. Drought Monitor map released Thursday shows 43.29 percent of Texas in exceptional drought, down from 52.67 percent last week.

It was the first time since May that the map showed less than 50 percent in the worst category. The highest percentage came in October at 87.99 percent.

Texas is in its worst single-year drought. The state has seen an average of about 12 inches of rain since January, just 46 percent of the normal total of 26 inches.

Blistering temperatures and dry conditions fostered wildfires that blackened about 6,000 square miles and destroyed more than 2,700 homes.

Comments

[DoctorDirector]

01:04 AM on 12/19/2011

Of course...it's mid-December. But I'd be surprised if the "drought" wasn't back on by, say, Spring of 2012. I think it's permanent, with some seasonal fluctuations.

[B Wood]

12:35 PM on 12/10/2011

Here hoping for more rain as well as a better understanding that humans are adversely impacting their environment.

[Holotrop Grof]

07:50 PM on 12/09/2011

Those prayers are finally working! *snicker*

[Andrew Harvey]

10:06 PM on 12/19/2011

Worked at least as well as the finger that you failed to lift.

[Lucile S]

05:01 PM on 12/09/2011

Let's set up an operation to build some giant pipelines to convey water to Texas. I think they prefer water than oil in that time being.

[Moose Luck 99]

10:33 AM on 12/09/2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yg8FBnGXIk

Geoengineering: Destroying the Atmosphere - Rosalind Peterson

[Kenneth Alton]

09:43 AM on 12/09/2011

One wonders, in an idle moment of speculation, assuming the state of Texas were to average only 12 inches of rain per annum going forward: How many decades would it take for the average Texas politician to openly acknowledge that things had changed? One? Two? More? Never?

[Dallas Dunlap]

01:37 PM on 12/09/2011

Kenneth Alton: I'm guessing never.

[Moose Luck 99]

09:26 AM on 12/09/2011

http://www.youtube.com/user/mohaveminutemen?blend=1&ob=5

Mohave County Chemtrails We are Pissed OFF!!!
From: mohaveminutemen | Nov

[StephenBP]

09:29 AM on 12/12/2011

I subscribe to your bio statement, but I just don't buy Chemtrails.

The military did some really crappy things with cadmium in the 50's and or 60's to test for fallout dispersion because it was something easy for them to analyze, and they of course irradiated us with all their above ground nuclear tests, and I am sure they have done plenty of crappy things since.

BUT chemtrails just doesn't lift the needle on my alarm meter, while my BS meter is jumping like a dog with a triple hatch out of fleas. A plane is a tiny dot in the huge sky, and dropping the relatively low toxicity barium from 30,000 feet or so makes absolutely no sense at all. Dispersion and dilution from that height would make it almost impossible to detect even if they were dropping barium as fast as they were burning fuel.

I strongly recommend that people keep looking at the sky however. Begin observant is just the right thing to be.

I recommend, though, that folks use better sources of info than unscientific emo websites.

Here is a great plane tracker site for a starter. I bet you will find that the "chemtrails" are just the contrails of commercial jets flying at an economical height going from point A to point B.

http://planefinder.net/

If you find otherwise, let us know so we can focus our attention on something worth focusing on.

Cheers.

[MikeWebster]

01:51 AM on 12/09/2011

Good for them, going for water recycling though.

[Moose Luck 99]

09:31 AM on 12/09/2011

Hi Mike,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHnl1V0IXac&feature=colike

[MikeWebster]

07:16 PM on 12/10/2011

Interesting. I hadn't really heard about that phenomenon before. Looks like a good sign that something bad is going on.

[MikeWebster]

01:48 AM on 12/09/2011

Shame the still seem to produce well over 50% of America's worst politicians.

[Sunwyn Ravenwood]

10:20 PM on 12/08/2011

I'm glad they are getting some rain, but at this point it's not doing much more than wetting the dust. If people in Texas are smart they will get out while they have the chance. Sell your property to a dang fool and move someplace where you have more water and a better climate. Good luck.

[KarmaPatrol]

07:54 PM on 12/08/2011

It's summer 2012 that will make or break a lot of Texan communities. Hope they make it.

[StephenBP]

09:43 AM on 12/12/2011

I agree with you. I don't wish fellow Americans ill, especially nor just for living in another part of the country. We are, after all, according to the first line of our constitution, trying to create a more perfect union.

Weather disasters and droughts in particular cause a lot of suffering and death. We are probably going to have to give Texas a lot of help in the years ahead. Be ready.

[Cailleach Echo]

07:27 PM on 12/08/2011

Must be all those Perry prayers.

[getoffmedz]

06:04 PM on 12/08/2011

We are hoping for another spell of significant rainfall by mid-week next in North Texas but no where near enough to actually ease this drought.

Lake bottoms are still in full view.

The drought is predicted to last at least another ten years or at least until the polar ice caps are gone.