Drought conditions (D1–D4) increased to 54% of the state from 33% four weeks ago; statewide reservoir storage increased to 74.2% full from 73.9% four weeks ago, about 6 percentage points below normal for this time of year. We remain under a La Niña Advisory with a 61% chance of La Niña conditions continuing into the January-through-March season. Most of the state is projected to be in drought over the next three months.
Author: Robert Mace
Robert Mace is the Executive Director and Chief Water Policy Officer at The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment and a Professor of Practice in the Department of Geography at Texas State University. Robert has over 30 years of experience in hydrology, hydrogeology, stakeholder processes, and water policy, mostly in Texas.
outlook+water: La Niña is here, the second month the rain stopped, and drought and The Blob are coming for us all
Drought conditions (D1–D4) increased to 33% of the state, up from 24% four weeks ago; statewide reservoir storage decreased to 73.9% full, down from 75.6% four weeks ago, about 6 percentage points below normal for this time of year. We are now a La Niña Advisory with a 55% chance of La Niña conditions continuing into the January-March season. Most of the state is projected to be in drought over the next three months.
think+water: Hyporheic homebodies, hot and cloudy corals, and carbon sequestration
This month, Dr. Robert E. Mace explores academic publications on a hydrological whodunits about species sorting vs. dispersal limitation, a thirty-year marine soap opera (the villain: heat and cloudy water), and how listening to the rocks can teach us about carbon storage.
outlook+water: La Niña watch, the month the rain stopped, and drought is coming for us all
Drought conditions (D1–D4) increased to 24% of the state from 20% four weeks ago; statewide reservoir storage decreased to 75.6% full from 77.3% four weeks ago, about 4 percentage points below normal for this time of year. We are under a La Niña Watch for the fall and winter. Last month, there was no drought projected in Texas over the next three months; this month, the whole dang state is projected to be in drought.
think+water: Alfalfa lightly salted with produced water, Edwards water market analysis, and thirsty cows
This month, Dr. Robert E. Mace explores academic publications on connections between indigenous rock art and the Balcones Escarpment, freshwater inflows and estuarine health, and a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious acronym for pesticide identification methods.