Texas finally received rain over the first weekend in October. But as the Drought Monitor shows, while the portion of the state under exceptional drought has dropped a little, 99% of the state is still under severe drought, just as it was last week.
The L.A. Times reported:
Texas has finally received some rain, but the weekend deluge has yet to make a dent in the yearlong drought that weather experts say could last a decade.
Some cities set daily rainfall records last weekend, prompting flash-flood warnings, including Waco, which received 5.83 inches of rain Sunday. Houston, in the midst of its driest year and after enduring its hottest summer on record, received 5.11 inches of rain, another daily record. Dallas got 1.37 inches.
Deluges are not the ideal solution to a drought because of the possibility of flash floods and massive runoff. What’s needed is slow but steady rain.
via Record Rains Don’t Ease Texas Drought, State Braces for Multi-Year Dust Bowl | ThinkProgress.