{"id":4361,"date":"2012-01-10T11:28:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T17:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=4361"},"modified":"2012-02-09T16:34:56","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T22:34:56","slug":"the-rain-in-texas-is-mostly-well-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/01\/10\/the-rain-in-texas-is-mostly-well-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rain in Texas is Mostly&#8230; Well, Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve posted so many maps of the drought over the past few months here at StateImpact Texas. The drought <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2011\/12\/29\/texas-inching-out-of-extreme-drought-for-now\/\">across the state<\/a>, the drought <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2011\/11\/07\/how-the-texas-drought-compares-to-the-rest-of-the-world\/\">compared to the rest of the world<\/a>, even the drought <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2011\/12\/01\/the-texas-drought-as-seen-from-space-things-dont-look-good\/\">as seen from space.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So we&#8217;re happy today to share a map of a different color. Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/water.weather.gov\/precip\/index.php?yday=1326153600&amp;yday_analysis=0&amp;layer[]=0&amp;layer[]=1&amp;layer[]=4&amp;timetype=RECENT&amp;loctype=STATE&amp;units=engl&amp;timeframe=current&amp;product=observed&amp;loc=stateTX\">rainfall in Texas from Monday<\/a>, according to\u00a0the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;sqi=2&amp;ved=0CDEQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.noaa.gov%2F&amp;ei=oHcMT5ONJ4Wq2gX_rrChBw&amp;usg=AFQjCNHhu20zk4L6PnTELeuAaR7d1chRFw&amp;sig2=k-z5XpIJztjuhnGbwS01pA\">NOAA<\/a>):<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4362\"  class=\"wp-caption module image center\" style=\"max-width: 620px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Rainfall in Texas over the last 24 hours\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/01\/rainfall.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4362\" title=\"rainfall\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/01\/rainfall-620x388.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/01\/rainfall-620x388.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/01\/rainfall-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/01\/rainfall-220x137.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/01\/rainfall.jpg 698w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Map by NOAA<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rainfall in Texas over the last 24 hours<\/p><\/div>\n<p>But the rain isn&#8217;t necessarily all-around great news.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"related-content alignright\"><h4 class=\"related-header\">Related<\/h4><div class=\"links\"><h5>Posts<\/h5><ul><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2011\/12\/30\/this-is-your-lake-this-is-drought-this-is-your-lake-on-drought\/\">This is Your Lake. This is Drought. This is Your Lake on Drought.<\/a><\/li><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2011\/12\/30\/travel-in-time-to-post-drought-texas\/\">Travel in Time to Post-Drought Texas!<\/a><\/li><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/01\/05\/she-just-wont-leave-la-nina-drought-will-stay-until-spring\/\">She Just Won\u2019t Leave: La Ni\u00f1a, Drought, Will Stay Until Spring<\/a><\/li><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/01\/09\/after-a-year-of-drought-houston-deluged-by-rain\/\">After Year of Drought, Houston Deluged by Rains, Floods and Even Tornadoes<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"topics\"><h5>Topics<\/h5><p class=\"topic\"><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/08\/WaterinTexas1-60x60.jpg\" height=\"60\" width=\"60\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/topic\/water-in-texas\/\">Your Guide to Water Issues In\u00a0Texas<\/a><\/p><p class=\"topic\"><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/11\/119835727-60x60.jpg\" height=\"60\" width=\"60\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/topic\/drought\/\">Everything You Need to Know About the Texas Drought<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Houston, where you can see some violet spots, had up to <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/01\/09\/after-a-year-of-drought-houston-deluged-by-rain\/\">six inches of rain in some parts of town<\/a>\u00a0and suffered flooding. A couple of tornadoes even touched down, which the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.srh.noaa.gov\/hgx\/?n=jan9_2012_storms\">NOAA is investigating<\/a>. One of them, in Fort Bend, just southwest of Houston, had the distinction of being<a href=\"http:\/\/www.srh.noaa.gov\/hgx\/?n=jan9_2012_storms\"> the first tornado of 2012<\/a>, with winds up to 95 mph, damaging several homes.<\/p>\n<p>And while every bit of rain counts, the drought is far from over, and <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/01\/05\/she-just-wont-leave-la-nina-drought-will-stay-until-spring\/\">real relief may not come until the fall<\/a>. As state\u00a0meteorologist\u00a0George Bomar<a href=\"http:\/\/bandc.posterous.com\/update-on-the-drought-in-texas-testimony-of-g\"> testified<\/a> before a state senate committee meeting on the Texas drought today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The bottom line appears to be this:\u00a0The rest of this winter will be quite dry, and there is little to suggest spring will live up to its potential to end our drought.\u00a0\u00a0Even the approaching summer does not appear capable of producing the kinds of rains we need, especially if the hurricane season is as uneventful as last year\u2019s.\u00a0\u00a0We have little reason to expect major relief from drought\u2014especially the \u201chydrologic\u201d variety\u2014until deep in 2012, if then.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other extreme Texas weather news, Midland continues to get more snow than some typical wintry locales. The city has had <a href=\"http:\/\/m.mywesttexas.com\/mobile\/top_stories\/article_0afe7ff4-3b37-11e1-9db5-0019bb2963f4.html\">19.3 inches of snow fall since the beginning of December<\/a>, more snowfall than Denver has had since then. And beating a previous record from the 1940&#8217;s of 13.9 inches, according to the Midland Reporter Telegram.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a collection of tweets and Facebook updates from the scene in Houston yesterday:<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/storify.com\/StateImpactTX\/after-a-year-of-drought-houston-deluged-by-rain.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><noscript>[&lt;a href=&#8221;http:\/\/storify.com\/StateImpactTX\/after-a-year-of-drought-houston-deluged-by-rain&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221;&gt;View the story &#8220;Houston Hit by Heavy Rains&#8221; on Storify&lt;\/a&gt;]<\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve posted so many maps of the drought over the past few months here at StateImpact Texas. The drought across the state, the drought compared to the rest of the world, even the drought as seen from space. So we&#8217;re happy today to share a map of a different color. Here&#8217;s the rainfall in Texas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":4362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[61,110,85],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361"}],"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=4361"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5700,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions\/5700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}