Rain chances increase this month ahead of a wetter-than-normal winter forecast thanks to El Niño.
When the rains came to Texas in May and June, there were high hopes that summer would be more tolerable than it it turned out to be: the second hottest summer on record.
When you say ‘exceptional drought,’ is that just a way that you describe it, or is that a term of art there? Yeah, there are lakes in Central Texas like, Stillhouse Hollow and Belton, that are lower than they’ve ever been. The lakes along the Rio Grande are running very low also. Other areas are not all that unusually low, so to speak. The problem is the two areas I mentioned were dry and low before the summer started. So having a dry summer just made things worse there.
Yeah, the cotton crop tends to go in the ground later and mature later than things like corn or sorghum. And so the early season crops did great with all the rain we had back in April and early May, but then it dried out since then.
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