Near Austin, the community of Spicewood Beach, outside of Marble Falls, is potentially days away from running out of water. As their wells dry up, today’s weather will undoubtedly be a help, but it can take four to five days for rains to make their ways to the water wells. Moreover, by capturing much of the storm runoff, the LCRA dams now had additional. We have little reason to expect major relief from drought-especially the “hydrologic” variety-until deep in 2012, if then.” The coastal basin only saw rain totals of almost twenty-one inches. Even the approaching summer does not appear capable of producing the kinds of rains we need, especially if the hurricane season is as uneventful as last year’s. Most of the gauges have no public access. “The bottom line appears to be this: The rest of this winter will be quite dry, and there is little to suggest spring will live up to its potential to end our drought. Rainfall Summary - Stream Flow and Weather Reports Rainfall Summary 9/10/22 9:16 AM LCRA - Rainfall Summary Units in inches - This information comes from LCRA's network of remote gauges. A new monitor will be released tomorrow morning:Īs state meteorologist George Bomar recently testified before a state senate committee meeting on the Texas drought: Here is the latest drought map of Texas from the National Drought Monitor. As we get to the latter part of spring, there is a possibility we could maybe see a return to more normal rains at that time.” “Overall, we’re still being influenced by La Nina, and from everything I’m seeing, our weather should more or less trend dried than normal at least February through March. Rose doesn’t expect more of these heavy rain events, saying this is more of a one-off. So while every bit of rain counts, the drought is far from over, and real relief may not come until the fall.
What Is The Lower Colorado River Authority?Įverything You Need to Know About the Texas Droughtīob Rose, a meteorologist with the Lower Colorado River Authority, told StateImpact Texas today that “unfortunately, the heaviest rains all fell just over Austin and areas down to the east, so it’s not really going to help the levels of the highland lakes.” Rainfall in that area was only one to two inches, he says, and “from what we re seeing there just wasn’t a whole lot of runoff based on that.” Rose says that the area still needs 10 to 20 inches of more rain to get lake levels up in the Highland Lake region.
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