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Originally Posted by IROC

It's feast or famine here. We went over two weeks with no measurable rain in May and now we are having heavy rains every day. Dew points have skyrocketed into the 70s. Very humid. Here's a pic I just took of my office window - condensation on the windows (and everything else) is standard now:

There's a guy with a very nice weather station <1.5miles north of me. I assume the rain that his station is reporting is probably fairly indicative of what we've had. In the last 6-8 weeks, he's had 15-20" of rain. If I go walk in my yard, the ground is very soft. The past couple of days when I get up in the morning all of the windows in the house are fogged up or covered in condensation. The dew point is 78º

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

There is no drought in our area of Oklahoma.

https://www.drought.gov/states/oklahoma

There are some patchy areas of drought. Just use the link I posted and change the state name and it will pull up any state.

That's a cool URL, thanks for posting.

Originally Posted by Pedro '84 Coupe

We are blessed with plenty of water and rain in Louisiana (maybe too much at times), although some of the aquifers are being depleted faster than many folks would like.

I worked in Lubbock on a project 10 years ago and I was amazed at how the farmers were able to grow anything out there. Most of the water came from the Ogallala aquifer and there was circular and drip irrigation and other pretty ingenious methods to irrigate the cotton etc. I really admired those folks' tenacity and ingenuity. Really great people out there.

At the time there were some bad floods in the Midwest from the Mississippi River so I wondered why couldn't the excess water be channeled somehow to the arid parts of the country. Turns out in the 1950s or 60s the feds began trying to expropriate land to create just such a channel to supply Lubbock and the surrounding area with water. I didn't believe it until I saw the right-of-way deeds in the public records. The channel was never built but the idea was there.

That's very interesting.

It looks like the western third of Texas is still very dry.