'There's a lot of room between the hottest summer on record and the second hottest summer on record. We could well hit that target,' state climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon said.
It’s hard to really understand what 2011 was like in Texas if you didn't live through it. The year was a blast furnace, marked by drought, triple-digit heat and historic wildfires. It started with a dry winter that quickly turned into a hot and dry spring, setting the state up for a stretch of scorching months that lasted long into the fall." the vice president of the Austin Firefighters Association says.
"There's a lot of room between the hottest summer on record and the second hottest summer on record. We could well hit that target."“Back in 2011, 26% of the state was in exceptional drought [in early May] This year it is 23%,” Murphy says. “Very similar.” That’s concerning because rain that soaks into the earth in the spring acts as protection against extreme heat in the summer.
Murphy and Nielsen-Gammon point out that the drought of 2011 was nearly statewide. This year the drought in West Texas and parts of Central Texas is actually worse than in the early parts of 2011. Meanwhile, large chunks of East and Northeast Texas have seen sizable rainfall.
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