{"id":5742,"date":"2012-02-10T11:47:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T17:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=5742"},"modified":"2012-02-10T11:47:41","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T17:47:41","slug":"is-drought-denial-a-thing-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/02\/10\/is-drought-denial-a-thing-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Drought Denial a Thing Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by StateImpact Texas<\/p>

Mysterious messages about the drought popped up around the UT campus Thursday evening.<\/p><\/div>\n

Yesterday evening on the way home from work, the above note was found on the windshield of one of our cars. Another was found on the car of a KUT News reporter, our local radio partners.<\/p>\n

Since we’re never ones to let a good tip go unnoticed, we did some Googling on the note. And if you follow the clues and look up those daily climate reports<\/a> from the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport<\/a> (ABIA) weather station, you find that…<\/p>\n

There was 0.01 inches of rain recorded there in September, a big departure from normal. On each of the days listed on the note, there was no rain recorded. On average, ABIA gets about two-and-a-half inches of rain during that month. So to correct our tipster: the drought<\/a> was in no way “neutralized” in September, though recent rains have allowed much of \u00a0Travis County to move from “exceptional” and “extreme” to “severe” drought\u00a0<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday evening on the way home from work, the above note was found on the windshield of one of our cars. Another was found on the car of a KUT News reporter, our local radio partners. Since we’re never ones to let a good tip go unnoticed, we did some Googling on the note. And […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":5743,"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\/5742"}],"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=5742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5745,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742\/revisions\/5745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}