ABATTBQ11 said:

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SA. We're in exceptional drought right now. The last 6 years of rainfall:

8.75" below average in 2024
12.4" below average in 2023
20.9" below average in 2022
2.2" above average in 2021
11.71 below average in 2020
10.39" below average in 2019

So over the last 6 years, we're 62" below average (ETA average is 32.4", so about 30% below over that period). It's 42.5" below over the last 3 (ETA that's 45% below average).

2025 isn't looking much better. We're at 1.75" for the year so far. Normal would be 4.7. Looking at long term forecasts, it's supposed to be a warm and dry spring, which is incredibly depressing and disheartening since summer is also looking brutal.

The Edwards aquifer is 40 feet below average. It's the second lowest recording since the 30's, and the lowest since 1956.

Medina Lake is at 2.3%. Canyon Lake is at 48%, which sounds better than it is. It hasn't been this low since the 60's when they were filling it. Wife's grandparents have property on a cove on Canyon that usually has about 12'-15' of water in it, and the edge of the water is almost a half mile from their house now.

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I'm glad I moved out of that area in 2015; I lived through 10 years of droughts and floods in San Marcos, AND our only water supply was rain harvesting, so I was very aware of water conservation.

Yeah this is pretty close to the worst it's been, and I've considered moving out. I've got a good work thing going though. Definitely going to retire somewhere else one day though.

The time it never rained by Elmer Kelton

We need some rain out in the Hill Country... it is getting dry and animals are hammering our feeders right now. Not sure there is any relief in the next week or so and probably longer.

ttha_aggie_09 said:

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We need some rain out in the Hill Country... it is getting dry and animals are hammering our feeders right now. Not sure there is any relief in the next week or so and probably longer.

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looking like rain is making a come back over the next 7 days

Maybe I should continue being a pessimist for good luck

i just returned a rain slicker and plan on washing the truck this weekend.....anything i can do to help.

If this rain holds, it might be hard shooting a turkey in the hill country next weekend. God knows we need it though

ABATTBQ87 said:

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ttha_aggie_09 said:

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We need some rain out in the Hill Country... it is getting dry and animals are hammering our feeders right now. Not sure there is any relief in the next week or so and probably longer.

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looking like rain is making a come back over the next 7 days

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Local weather says maybe 1"-2" over Thursday and Friday. Hopefully they're on the conservative side, but we'll take every drop we can get.

Had a 20% chance tonight, and it looks like a really strong line may sweep over us in an hour or so. Fingers crossed!

ABATTBQ11 said:

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Had a 20% chance tonight, and it looks like a really strong line may sweep over us in an hour or so. Fingers crossed!

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Run out and wash your truck, that'll make it rain

Well, never mind. Looks like the typical break in the storm line that will leave us dry while soaking everything around us.

****.

Insane

⁦@foxweather⁩ Video is from Kerrville,Texas I-10 West of town. pic.twitter.com/IDca0Bl78A

— Del Way (@del_way) March 24, 2025

20% chance of rain....up till the bottom fell out.

aggiedata said:

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Insane

⁦@foxweather⁩ Video is from Kerrville,Texas I-10 West of town. pic.twitter.com/IDca0Bl78A

— Del Way (@del_way) March 24, 2025

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My FIL had about 1.8" of rain and 20 minutes of 1/4" hail out near Bergheim. He seems to have missed the larger stuff that was supposed to be falling in that storm according to the warnings. I just had Jason with Infinity Roofing out to look at our roof for damage from the hail storm we had here in Bastrop a week ago. Luckily, he didn't find anything up there. If you were caught by any of this stuff recently, drop a DM to him here on Texags, he is good people and we have used him for our roof in Houston back in 2020 and 4 roofs at the place near Bergheim later that same year.

Jason has helped us get a new roof for my in-laws.

Yeah Jason seems like good people. I talked to him when replacing our roof but I had a hookup I couldn't pass up on that was way cheaper than everyone else. I would have gone with him had I not had that connection.

Hail storm in Kerrville, TX — Sunday night
Just wild.

This is what it looked and sounded like when the hail started coming down—slamming into cars and everything in sight.

Some of these chunks were big enough to do real damage. pic.twitter.com/iDc1fOWbDr

— John-Carlos Estrada 🎙️ (@Mr_JCE) March 24, 2025

Family in Boerne had pea size hail and 1/4" of rain.....better than nothing I guess

next 3 days are promising though.

Got hit in Collin county with golf ball sized hail. Roofers and body shops going to be busy for a while

Howdy, it is FINALLY going to rain in Rockport today (or so they say) been in a No Water phase for months, yards be dead.

Wasn't expecting anything today, but it looks like we might get something this evening. Chances tomorrow look great, and even increased chances for Friday. Expected totals have gone from 1"-2" to 2"-3".

Just got 1" in about 30 minutes in Pleasanton. Hardest rain I have seen here in 5 years or more. Looks like more is coming. Currently raining a lot in George West, Beeville, and Freer.

The forecast does not look like it, but I wish some of this rain would make it up to the Concan area and refill some of those springs.

1.4" in Calallen, America. I nearly drowned standing in the back yard looking up and wondering what the hell it was.

B-1 83 said:

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1.4" in Calallen, America. I nearly drowned standing in the back yard looking up and wondering what the hell it was.

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It apparently was coming down near Concan. Waiting on total but sounded like a lot

1.32" so far near utopia.

ttha_aggie_09 said:

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It apparently was coming down near Concan. Waiting on total but sounded like a lot

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So happy it made it up that far. We will be there in July, and I am sure it will be down by then but get everything you can!!!!

It's probably been 5+ years since it has been truly floatable. Hoping that changes this year but we've had an awful start. Animals are hungry right now…

ttha_aggie_09 said:

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It's probably been 5+ years since it has been truly floatable. Hoping that changes this year but we've had an awful start. Animals are hungry right now…

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I feel for you. Same down here, I just let my yard completely die last year. it was and is embarrassing to have my neighbors walk by/drive by and look at it, but I was tired of dropping $500+ of water on it every month for it to barely hang on. This weekend we are spreading about 10 yards of topsoil on the front yard and starting over again. I could not imagine running cattle in these conditions. I feel for the deer also.

when I checked yesterday afternoon my gauge in pearsall showed 1.75" and my gauge in tilden showed 1/2". Ill check em again once the sun comes up.

edit - up to 2.5" in Pearsall and 3/4" in Tilden

Up to 2.3" this morning with more just crossing the Rio Grande.

RGV up a couple pulgadas. Much, much needed.

I still get sad when I see what has become of the Frio. It seems like the flow averages a small fraction of what it was when I was a child. Of course, everything seemed bigger then, but even in old pictures you could tell the flow rate was regularly at least double or triple what it is today, if not more. Combination of drier climate conditions and more wells.

6+ in south Bee County since yesterday. Looks like today's rain may not materialize like was predicted.