Texoma remains drought free, water board says.
Despite an increase in drought elsewhere in the state, Texoma remained drought free for the second week in a row, the Texas Water Development Board said Monday in its weekly water report.
This week’s update found that 8 percent of the state, up from 7 percent last week, is currently in a state of drought.
Due to low reservoir levels, Corpus Christi is also under Stage 1 drought restrictions.” Locally, no drought conditions were found in Texoma.
While Grayson County has remained drought free for nearly a month, the TWDB reported “abnormally dry” conditions in Fannin County three weeks ago.
Over the weekend, the National Weather Service reported between one and 2.1 inches of rainfall from storms that inundated the region Sunday night.
NWS Meteorologist Steven Fano said the weather service has recorded 5.1 inches of rainfall for the month of July at a weather station at North Texas Regional Airport.
Fano said that given the low expected rainfall for July, it isn’t unheard of for areas to get significantly more rainfall and called July a very wet month for the region.
“It is difficult to say how much, but another half inch to an inch is possible.” As the week progresses, Fano said he expects the upper level ridge over the region to drift toward the four-corners region, opening the possibility for more thunderstorms later this week.
As of Tuesday afternoon, the conservation pool stood at 717.73 feet, or 96.51 percent full.