{"id":10084,"date":"2015-07-09T05:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T05:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10084"},"modified":"2015-07-09T05:00:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T05:00:22","slug":"rain-rain-rain-keep-thinking-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10084","title":{"rendered":"Rain, rain, rain … keep thinking ‘drought’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Even as I write this brief post, let us ponder something that seems nonsensical.<\/p>\n

The Texas Panhandle has been drenched — and that’s a relative term — for the year to date. We’ve exceeded our annual precipitation average, and it’s only the eighth day of July. It’s raining again tonight. Hard.<\/p>\n

Should we consider the drought to be over? You’re welcome to do so, if you wish. We intend at our house to continue operating as if we’re in a drought.<\/p>\n

We won’t water the lawn, which of course is quite obvious, given that we’ve had plenty of moisture already. We intend to watch our indoor water consumption. When it dries out, we’ll keep our lawn-watering\u00a0to a minimum.<\/p>\n

We only average about 20 inches of rain per year on what I call the Texas Tundra. We’ve reached that total already in 2015.<\/p>\n

Our playas are full. Lake Meredith’s levels keep rising. Who knows? Perhaps they might even release some water upriver at Ute Lake, allowing it to flow down the Canadian River into Lake Meredith.<\/p>\n

Water planners said this all could happen if we kept the faith and were careful with our water resources.<\/p>\n

Our water condition is much better than it was just two years ago.<\/p>\n

Remember, though: The drought took years to develop and it’ll take years to be abated fully.<\/p>\n\n

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Even as I write this brief post, let us ponder something that seems nonsensical. The Texas Panhandle has been drenched — and that’s a relative term — for the year to date. We’ve exceeded our annual precipitation average, and it’s only the eighth day of July. It’s raining again tonight. Hard. Should we consider the … Continue reading Rain, rain, rain … keep thinking ‘drought’<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[830,2718,4609,4668,5072],"class_list":["post-10084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-canadian-river","tag-lake-meredith","tag-texas-drought","tag-texas-panhandle","tag-ute-lake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}