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(TX) Impact of historic drought lingers
http://kdhnews.com/news/texas/impact-of-historic-drought-lingers/article_387c2ab4-9538-11e3-b661-0017a43b2370.htmlImpact of historic drought lingers
Posted: Friday, February 14, 2014 4:30 am
HOUSTON — Almost three years have passed since the rains returned and Texas emerged from a historic drought. Yet there still isn’t enough water.
The impact of record-breaking heat and years of little or no rainfall can be felt long after a dry spell passes, and Texas is now struggling with the brunt of a historic yearlong drought that crippled the state’s lakes, agriculture and water supplies.
“It’s been a doozy of a drought,” said Mark Svoboda, a climatologist with the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. “It’s cumulative so that system has not recovered.”
Officially, the drought that parched Texas starting in 2011 and its lingering effects are not as severe as the yearslong, record-making “drought of record” that stretched through the 1950s. That drought has since been the foundation of all water planning in the state.