US Drought Monitor
The latest U.S. Drought Monitor map is a mass of dark reds and deep yellows, but the Houston area is white. That means while we're completely free of drought conditions, most other parts of the state are still dry.
Mark Svoboda is with the Drought Monitor at the University of Nebraska.
"I think we're much better off for a good portion of Texas than we were a year ago, but having said that, a good portion of Texas, in fact when you just look at drought in general, we still have 77-percent of the state in some form of drought and 10-percent or so almost in the most extreme two categories, so there's still some drought to be dealt with the western part of the state."
