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Monday, April 11, 2011

'Nearly All of Texas Now Experiencing Drought'

from wisconsin ag connection..........

"The latest report from the U.S. Drought Monitor released last week shows 98 percent of Texas now in a drought, and more than 86 percent in a severe drought or worse.

Furthermore, the northern third of Harris County has entered an extreme drought. For Houston, according to the National Weather Service, the period since Feb. 15 has been the driest such period on record for the city.

Conditions are worse still just to the northwest of Houston, where about 5 percent of the state centered on the Brazos Valley has entered into the worst category of drought, "exceptional."...............read it here


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