FLOYD COUNTY, TX – Despite a shower over the weekend, Floyd County remains extremely dry. Plainview recorded 6/10ths of an inch in moisture on Sunday, but South Plains led the rain gauge race with .12″ in moisture.
Ironically, the county is just now officially reentering drought – according to the latest Drought Monitor.
According to Dr. Mark Wentzel, a hydrologist with the Texas Water Development Board, “El Nino conditions, which typically bring a cooler and wetter fall and winter to Texas, are expected to persist into Spring 2024. Similar conditions in 2018-2019 brought relief to our surface water reservoirs by October. In 2014-2015, supplies did not begin to increase significantly until February.”
