(TX) Impact of historic drought lingers
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Impact of historic drought lingers
Posted: Friday, February 14, 2014 4:30 am
HOUSTON Almost three years have passed since the rains returned and Texas emerged from a historic drought. Yet there still isnt enough water.
The impact of record-breaking heat and years of little or no rainfall can be felt long after a dry spell passes, and Texas is now struggling with the brunt of a historic yearlong drought that crippled the states lakes, agriculture and water supplies.
Its been a doozy of a drought, said Mark Svoboda, a climatologist with the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. Its cumulative so that system has not recovered.
Officially, the drought that parched Texas starting in 2011 and its lingering effects are not as severe as the yearslong, record-making drought of record that stretched through the 1950s. That drought has since been the foundation of all water planning in the state.