Despite record-setting downpours in some areas of Texas offering temporary relief to scorched parts of the state, drought conditions persist in some of the hardest-hit areas. | nachoaguilar
The Sabinal River runs dry outside Utopia, Texas, in early August. While recent rainfall in North and Central Texas helped reduce drought conditions, other parts of the state saw no change. Despite about two inches of rainfall in San Antonio over the last seven days, 100% of the Bexar County area is still under drought conditions.from the U.S. Drought Monitor show about 95% of Texas is still at some level of drought. Conditions are updated every Thursday using data collected up to 7 a.m.
“That’s a definite improvement. Mainly those [improved areas] are in the northern, northeastern parts of the state where the heaviest rain fell,” said John Nielsen-Gammon, the state climatologist and director of the Southern Regional Climate Center at Texas A&M University. “That's also an area that was mainly experiencing shorter term drought so it’s easier for one significant rainfall to make a big difference.
The rainfall also provided very modest relief to parts of the Rio Grande Valley, where local officials earlier this month implemented mandatory water restrictions. That came after the Falcon Reservoir, which feeds water to communities north and south of the Rio Grande,Zapata and Starr counties improved only slightly on the drought index, and the reservoir is now at about 12% capacity.
“They will probably end the month better than they started, but they still won't have improved enough to the two things back where they were in the spring even,” he said.
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