Just weeks after much-needed rains graced the state, drought conditions have returned for 25 percent of Texas.
That’s up from 18 percent a week ago and from 15 percent three months ago.
But, the state is still in reasonably good shape when you look back to this time last year when over half–59 percent–of the state was suffering from drought.
According to the latest drought outlook from the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB), the west side of the Rio Grande Valley and parts of Central and North Texas are in the least severe category, “abnormally dry.” Northeast Texas has stepped into the severe drought category while the rest of East Texas is still in moderate drought.
No counties have entered the extreme or exceptional drought categories.
Reservoir storage in East Texas is at 97 percent full per TWDB’s report.