Did the significant rain in North Texas impact the drought?

“When it rains, it pours!” If you ask me, I consider this saying got here from Texans when describing the climate, particularly this week throughout North Texas.

However, that’s not the case. According to The Farmer’s Almanac, its origin comes from an unlikely place: the Morton Salt Company. Ad executives developed the expression in the early 1900s to promote salt. Interesting, huh?

There have been torrential downpours in North Texas from Sunday to Monday, setting many information for Dallas and Fort Worth. Dallas Airport picked up 9.49 inches, which put an enormous dent in our yearly deficit.

It was the wettest 24 hours in virtually a century and fewer than a tenth of an inch behind the high spot of 9.57 inches set on Sept. 4-5, 1932. It’s in the high spot for the wettest August on file with 10.38 inches and we had two days of back-to-back each day rainfall information.

Also, to high it off, 3.01 inches of rain fell between 1 and a pair of a.m. on Monday and that was the highest one-hour rainfall ever recorded. 

The newest Drought Monitor got here out on Thursday and exhibits some main enhancements throughout North Texas. Last week DFW was in an distinctive drought however is now in the reasonable to extreme class.

Overall, Texas noticed a drop of 14% in the distinctive drought and a 19% drop in excessive drought.

Even although we noticed some enchancment, now we have a technique to go. 22.1 million, or 93%, of Texans are nonetheless in a drought.

The good news is now we have some rain in the forecast by way of subsequent week and the prolonged outlook by way of early September appears promising!

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