{"id":14535,"date":"2012-07-06T10:17:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T15:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=14535"},"modified":"2012-07-06T10:17:34","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T15:17:34","slug":"latest-drought-outlook-those-dreaded-words-persist-or-intensify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/07\/06\/latest-drought-outlook-those-dreaded-words-persist-or-intensify\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Drought Outlook: Those Dreaded Words &#8216;Persist or Intensify&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14536\" class=\"module image aligncenter mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"width: 620px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/07\/06\/latest-drought-outlook-those-dreaded-words-persist-or-intensify\/season_drought-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14536\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14536\" title=\"season_drought (1)\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/07\/season_drought-1-620x465.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/07\/season_drought-1-620x465.gif 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/07\/season_drought-1-300x225.gif 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/07\/season_drought-1.gif 949w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">NOAA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The National Weather Service&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/products\/expert_assessment\/seasonal_drought.html\">Climate Prediction Center<\/a> released the latest drought outlook this week. This is a prediction of what lays ahead in the next three months, and the news for Texas isn&#8217;t great: for much of the state, the drought is expected to &#8220;persist or intensify.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was a <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/03\/15\/texas-drought-outlook-improving\/\">different story this spring<\/a>. In the March 15 outlook, the drought was <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/03\/15\/texas-drought-outlook-improving\/\">predicted to improve<\/a>. And that&#8217;s largely what it did. Back then, over twenty percent of the state was in &#8220;exceptional&#8221; drought, the worst stage. And over 40 percent was in the next worst stage, &#8220;extreme.&#8221; Today only nine percent of the state is at that level, and none of the state is in &#8220;exceptional&#8221; drought.<\/p>\n<p>But the new report shows that for the summer, a lot of Texas, and much of the rest of the country, is likely to see ongoing drought conditions. Here&#8217;s hoping that the <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/07\/06\/to-break-the-drought-hoping-for-a-perfect-storm\/\">predicted arrival of El Nino<\/a> in the fall will bring rain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOAA The National Weather Service&#8217;s Climate Prediction Center released the latest drought outlook this week. This is a prediction of what lays ahead in the next three months, and the news for Texas isn&#8217;t great: for much of the state, the drought is expected to &#8220;persist or intensify.&#8221; It was a different story this spring. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":14536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[61,140,110],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14535"}],"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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14542,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14535\/revisions\/14542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}