Howdy, Rockport here. Our yard is complete TOAST, if it ever rains will have to be resoded! We have been on yard watering for +six months, Yikes. Almost zero, zip, nada rainfall? What in the Great, Great World of Sports is going on? Multi generation Texans and never seen it like this! Please God send some rain!!!!

La Niña is the worst for Texas. We need rain badly and we need El Niño to move in.

After 30 years of living through drought after drought and watching water tables and creeks and spring's dry up and trees die and never having a true four seasons anymore at our ranch in Kimble cty is one of the determining factors for us pulling up stakes and buying a ranch in the Ozarks.

MyNameIsJeff said:

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Current forecast here in BCS calls for about 3" over the next 5 days.

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That's like the Yucatan bragging about rain to the Sahara.

Jbob04 said:

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La Niña is the worst for Texas. We need rain badly and we need El Niño to move in.

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Thankfully La Nina is out and hopefully a solid El Nino is headed in.

We got an 1.20 last night in central Texas with hopefully more to come this weekend. Need to break this 20 plus year drought.

We average about 24" near Concan which means some years it's 35" or over and most years it's more like 14". It has been drier, there is no question about that, but the freaking swimming pools and wells being drilled along the Frio are having a devastating impact on the water table, in my opinion.

Corpus is about to hit a Level 1 emergency with a 25% cutback, ZERO outdoor watering, a 7000 gal allocation and $4 surcharge for every 1000 gallons over that. No garden for me this year. I may well save water from the bathtub/shower when they are "warming up" just to use on my herbs and potted lime tree.

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MyNameIsJeff said:

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Current forecast here in BCS calls for about 3" over the next 5 days.

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That's like the Yucatan bragging about rain to the Sahara.

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One of my favorite things on Texags is the mythical Aggie dome. They get 40 inches a year.

The Aggieland board is obsessed with the mythical "dome"

Gunny456 said:

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Droughts and frequency of them in the northwest hill country down to south Texas are increasing in length and frequency over the last 25-30 years seems like.
At our ranch in Kimble county in 2011 we had 5" rain total. Normal was 34-36". Old timers up there said it used to be on a 7 year or so cycle but it seemed to have changed to a major drought every two or three years now.
All we can do is simply pray for rain…. and hope it all doesn't come in one night.

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It may seem like droughts are more common, but they aren't. Historically speaking they are pretty much right on with the normal time frames.

I don't even think I got 5" of rain from all of last year to now where we are. Every single pasture is completely brown. The *****ly pear are wilting. The mesquite is yellow. The only thing that is green are my garden with buried drip and the banks of our spring fed creeks. Those fortunately are flowing and the water is deep. Outside of that, it's totally dead and dust. We got rid of a lot of livestock but still have to feed the rest. It's pretty crazy. It's going to take rain like in the forecast spread out over a month, every month, for the next 5 years to restore everything.

I have several friends that used to own boats…that they bought when they bought their lots…on Medina lake. Yeah, those are all sold.

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Jbob04 said:

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La Niña is the worst for Texas. We need rain badly and we need El Niño to move in.

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Thankfully La Nina is out and hopefully a solid El Nino is headed in.

We got an 1.20 last night in central Texas with hopefully more to come this weekend. Need to break this 20 plus year drought.

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Hyperbole much?

schmellba99 said:

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96ags said:

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Jbob04 said:

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La Niña is the worst for Texas. We need rain badly and we need El Niño to move in.

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Thankfully La Nina is out and hopefully a solid El Nino is headed in.

We got an 1.20 last night in central Texas with hopefully more to come this weekend. Need to break this 20 plus year drought.

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Hyperbole much?

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Nope. I believe the number is actually 26 or 27

Brian Bledsoe has some good videos and articles about it.

Family been ranching in the hill country since the mid 1800's. Dry line definitely slowly moving east. They had droughts in the 50's but frequency and lengths are increasing in areas. Annual rainfall totals sometimes reach recorded averages but rain events of heavier rainfalls followed by longer times between rains becoming more frequent in north and western EP regions.
One of the reasons Texas southern and western lakes and rivers are at historical lows and have been that way for multiple years now.

Gunny456 said:

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Yes sir. I use to quail hunt on a large ranch outside Ozona in the 70's. The same place looks completely different now….

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Quail are really coming back now though. I never saw coveys back around 2000 and nowadays I can see a couple each time I'm filling feeders

It isn't about annual rainfall amount necessarily. The rains are becoming larger events with extended dry periods between them getting larger. It doesn't do much if a counties rainfall average is 30" and you get 13" of that one night and it's ten months till you get the rest and that continues for multiple years back to back.

I don't know why the whole state of Texas except for maybe East Texas and Houston doesn't Institute water restrictions like Arizona has. It makes no sense to let people keep on having blush green yards for no freaking reason.

The resource is going to be gone, and then what will you have?

Jbob04 said:

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The Aggieland board is obsessed with the mythical "dome"

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It takes a lot of water to grow St Augustine or keep Bermuda green where it doesn't belong.

I agree there is zero sense in letting some delusional HOA's demanding golf course green type lawns and resort type landscaping and other needless water demands dictate water usage. I never water my lawn of native grasses and GASP! weeds. I just mow the thing when it needs it and it is green when it rains and more brown when it doesn't. But it never dies, even in the harshest drought, and greens right back up with fresh growth in a few days after a decent rain. I simply waste less time and gas mowing when it is dry.

We waste water other ways like not repairing infrastructure that needs to be addressed also, as does the law regarding use and access in general. The anything goes if you can drill it approach won't work at projected population levels.

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schmellba99 said:

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96ags said:

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Jbob04 said:

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La Niña is the worst for Texas. We need rain badly and we need El Niño to move in.

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Thankfully La Nina is out and hopefully a solid El Nino is headed in.

We got an 1.20 last night in central Texas with hopefully more to come this weekend. Need to break this 20 plus year drought.

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Hyperbole much?

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Nope. I believe the number is actually 26 or 27

Brian Bledsoe has some good videos and articles about it.

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The hill country has not been in drought for 20+ years.

Now, if you want to make the argument that groundwater is disappearing at a significantly increased rate over the last 20+ years, that is factual. But a different story than drought.