{"id":11811,"date":"2012-05-31T15:34:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T20:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=11811"},"modified":"2012-06-04T10:54:50","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T15:54:50","slug":"drought-monitor-a-slight-reversal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/05\/31\/drought-monitor-a-slight-reversal\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought Monitor: A Slight Reversal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11816\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/05\/31\/drought-monitor-a-slight-reversal\/droughtmap-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11816\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11816\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/droughtmap-300x297.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/droughtmap-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/droughtmap-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/droughtmap-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/droughtmap-60x60.jpg 60w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/05\/droughtmap.jpg 345w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">U.S. Drought Monitor<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The state drought map released Thursday, May 31. The tan and red areas denote areas in drought.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After so much progress over the winter months, it&#8217;s a let down to see the drought map released today by the U.S. Drought Monitor showing a slight reversal in recent trends.<\/p>\n<p>Despite an overall retreat of drought in Texas, the percentage of the state experiencing drought conditions actually increased by two percentage points since last week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/DM_state.htm?TX,S\">The Drought Monitor map <\/a>released today reveals that 59.18% of the state is still in drought conditions, with parts of northwest Texas continuing to harbor islands of extreme and exceptional drought.<\/p>\n<p>Recent weather for much of the state should allay some alarm, however. Wet weather passed through the Dallas-Fort Worth area yesterday and is in the forecast for much of the central and eastern parts of the state today. Still, some analysts say it&#8217;s anybody&#8217;s guess if wetter trends will continue.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s just an equal chance of precipitation being above normal as there is being below normal,\u201d Luigi Romolo with the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.srcc.lsu.edu\/\">Southern Regional Climate Center<\/a>, told StateImpact Texas partner\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kut.org\/?p=150654\">KUT <\/a>News. \u201cSo unfortunately we don\u2019t really have an answer of what\u2019s going to come in the future. You could pretty much flip a coin and be just as right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, if only more of that rain could make it out to far west Texas and the Panhandle!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After so much progress over the winter months, it&#8217;s a let down to see the drought map released today by the U.S. Drought Monitor showing a slight reversal in recent trends. Despite an overall retreat of drought in Texas, the percentage of the state experiencing drought conditions actually increased by two percentage points since last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[61,140],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11841,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11811\/revisions\/11841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}