{"id":26096,"date":"2013-04-03T11:04:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T16:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=26096"},"modified":"2013-04-03T11:04:07","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T16:04:07","slug":"outlook-calls-for-texas-drought-to-continue-into-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2013\/04\/03\/outlook-calls-for-texas-drought-to-continue-into-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Outlook Calls for Texas Drought to Continue Into Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thunderstorms <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/news\/local\/after-record-rain-more-showers-could-be-on-the-way\/nXBXM\/\">soaked swaths of Texas yesterday<\/a> and could bring more today, but Texas&#8217; longterm weather forecast is saturated with unsettling news.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/\">National\u00a0Oceanographic\u00a0and\u00a0Atmospheric\u00a0Administration&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0(NOAA)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/drought.gov\/media\/pgfiles\/RC_SouthernPlains_March21_Final.pdf\">Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook<\/a> summary of Texas weather is a grim reminder that Texas needs far more than a few strong storms.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the more interesting findings from the study:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26124\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2013\/04\/03\/outlook-calls-for-texas-drought-to-continue-into-summer\/screen-shot-2013-04-03-at-10-15-22-am\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26124\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26124\" title=\"Screen Shot 2013-04-03 at 10.15.22 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2013\/04\/Screen-Shot-2013-04-03-at-10.15.22-AM-300x264.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2013\/04\/Screen-Shot-2013-04-03-at-10.15.22-AM-300x264.png 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2013\/04\/Screen-Shot-2013-04-03-at-10.15.22-AM.png 317w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Map by NOAA<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">This map shows that temperature have been warmer than normal over the last two years in Texas.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: 13.63636302947998px;\">Temperatures and precipitation have diverged from historical norms.<\/strong>\u00a0The last two years in Texas were the warmest since 1985. And the entire state experienced lower than normal rainfall in that time period, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: 13.63636302947998px;\">One result of the oppressive weather is a shrinking water supply.<\/strong> Central Texas&#8217; two largest reservoirs, Lake Travis and Lake Buchanan, are at 41 percent capacity, according to the <a style=\"font-size: 13.63636302947998px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lcra.org\/\">Lower Colorado River Authority<\/a>, LCRA, website. Those low levels aren&#8217;t likely to improve much in the coming months, as the NOAA outlook anticipates warmer and drier weather through June.<\/p>\n<h5><em><strong>David Barer is a reporting intern for StateImpact Texas.<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thunderstorms soaked swaths of Texas yesterday and could bring more today, but Texas&#8217; longterm weather forecast is saturated with unsettling news. The\u00a0National\u00a0Oceanographic\u00a0and\u00a0Atmospheric\u00a0Administration&#8217;s\u00a0(NOAA)\u00a0Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook summary of Texas weather is a grim reminder that Texas needs far more than a few strong storms. Here are some of the more interesting findings from the study: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":26124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[61,122,212],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26096"}],"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\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}