The U.S.Drought Monitor is WRONG

mike honcho

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HOUSTON (AP) - The U.S. Drought Monitor has reclassified the Dallas-Fort Worth as being not in drought for the first time since July.

The agency's weekly map posted Thursday makes Dallas-Fort Worth the first major metropolitan area in Texas to come out of the most severe one-year drought in state history.

While residents in those areas will likely no longer have any water restrictions, meteorologists and climatologists warn the situation remains precarious.

More than half the state remains in severe or exceptional stages of drought, and a drier-than-normal spring or hotter-than-usual summer could quickly tip wetter areas back into drought.


Read more on myFOXdfw.com: http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/Drought-Ended-for-DFW-Area-Thanks-to-Recent-Rain-020212#ixzz1lGWxkePB​
 
Happy to see you're out of the drought --- 1/2 of Anderson is "extreme" and 1/2 is "severe". There is a tiny section that is still "exceptional".
Please let us get soaked tomorrow and Saturday. *fingers crossed*
 
I don't see how we are out of the drought?It's rained 1 time in a month and a half?Looks like rain now but probably won't get any.Would be nice though.
 
NC was in the same state for a couple of years and now we're pretty much out of it. Things go in cycles and soon, or when ever you get some good consistent precipitation, your local meteorologists will continue to show the level of drought. They will go back two three or four years to tell you how much under average you are. Heck, they might even go back 50 years just to make a story. The point is, even this year and every year goes in to help make up the average. Enough days without rain and it will be normal. Yikes! But think about this...our mountains are in the middle of skiing season and the temps are well above freezing. They ain't thinking about rain up there.
 
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