{"id":5433,"date":"2012-02-02T11:35:33","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T17:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=5433"},"modified":"2012-02-02T12:40:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T18:40:22","slug":"the-countdown-continues-5-percent-of-texas-is-now-drought-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/02\/02\/the-countdown-continues-5-percent-of-texas-is-now-drought-free\/","title":{"rendered":"The Countdown Continues: 5 Percent of Texas is Now Drought-Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5442\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Most of Dallas\/Fort Worth is now officially drought-free.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/02\/drought-map.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5442\" title=\"drought map\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/02\/drought-map-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/02\/drought-map-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/02\/drought-map-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/02\/drought-map-140x140.jpg 140w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/02\/drought-map-60x60.jpg 60w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/02\/drought-map-220x220.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/02\/drought-map-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/02\/drought-map.jpg 346w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Map by National Drought Monitor<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Most of Dallas\/Fort Worth is now officially drought-free.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Congratulations, residents of Dallas\/Fort Worth. You are <a href=\"http:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/DM_state.htm?TX,S\">part of the five percent of Texas officially no longer living in drought<\/a>. (In comparison, a year ago twenty percent of Texas was drought-free.)<\/p>\n<p>The latest <a href=\"http:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/\">National Drought Monitor report<\/a> was released today, and you can see a large band of white (that&#8217;s the drought-free portion of the state) elbowing its way into Texas, taking over most of Dallas and Tarrant Counties.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas\/Fort Worth had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.srh.noaa.gov\/srh\/climate\/?n=2011heatprecip\">only their 28th driest year ever<\/a>, a relatively comfortable position compared to other parts of the state like Amarillo and Lubbock, which had their <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/01\/11\/texas-and-the-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-year\/\">driest years on record<\/a>. Places like Midland, Texas, only received five-and-a-half inches of rain the entire year. For most of Texas, it was a <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/01\/11\/texas-and-the-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-year\/\">terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year<\/a> of weather.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/02\/01\/five-ways-to-find-water-for-a-thirsty-texas\/\">drought is far from over<\/a>. But it&#8217;s welcome news that <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/topic\/drought\/\">millions of people in Texas are living drought-free <\/a>(for now).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations, residents of Dallas\/Fort Worth. You are part of the five percent of Texas officially no longer living in drought. (In comparison, a year ago twenty percent of Texas was drought-free.) The latest National Drought Monitor report was released today, and you can see a large band of white (that&#8217;s the drought-free portion of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":5442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[61,85],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5433"}],"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=5433"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5452,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5433\/revisions\/5452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}