{"id":5811,"date":"2012-02-13T14:31:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T20:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=5811"},"modified":"2012-02-13T14:31:57","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T20:31:57","slug":"maps-of-the-texas-drought-the-beginning-peak-and-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/02\/13\/maps-of-the-texas-drought-the-beginning-peak-and-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Maps of the Texas Drought: The Beginning, Peak, and Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/topic\/drought\/\">drought in Texas<\/a>, which broke single-year records, has shown dramatic abatement in recent months as <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/02\/09\/mark-your-calendars-for-la-ninas-farewell-party\/\">rains surprised the state<\/a>. It was supposed to be a drier-than-average winter, but thankfully forecasts can be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you&#8217;re curious to see how far Texas has to go before things get back to &#8220;normal?&#8221; Quite a way. These three maps from the <a href=\"http:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/\">National Drought Monitor<\/a> show the progression (and, hopefully, regression) of the drought, from its beginning in October 2010, to its arguable peak in October of the following year, to the improved-but-far-from-out-of-the-woods condition we find\u00a0ourselves\u00a0in today:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5810\" class=\"module image aligncenter mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"width: 620px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Maps of the Texas drought: The beginning, peak, and today\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/10\/Downloads1.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5810\" title=\"Downloads\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/10\/Downloads1-620x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/10\/Downloads1-620x225.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/10\/Downloads1-300x109.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/10\/Downloads1-220x80.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Maps by National Drought Center<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more at our topic page, <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/topic\/drought\/\">Everything You Need to Know About the Texas Drought<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current drought in Texas, which broke single-year records, has shown dramatic abatement in recent months as rains surprised the state. It was supposed to be a drier-than-average winter, but thankfully forecasts can be wrong. Maybe you&#8217;re curious to see how far Texas has to go before things get back to &#8220;normal?&#8221; Quite a way. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":5810,"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\/5811"}],"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=5811"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5815,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5811\/revisions\/5815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}