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The 1950s Texas drought was a period between 1949 and 1957 in which the state received 30 to 50% less rain than normal, while temperatures rose above average. During this time, Texans experienced the second-, third-, and eighth-driest single years ever in the state – 1956, 1954, and 1951, respectively. [ 1 ]
From 1950 to 1957, Texas experienced the most severe drought in recorded history. By the time the drought ended, 244 of Texas's 254 counties had been declared federal disaster areas. [40] Drought became particularly severe in California, with some natural lakes drying up completely in 1953.
Excessive heat and drought problems affected the United States in 1934–35 from the Rocky Mountains, Texas and Oklahoma to parts of the Midwestern, Great Lakes, and Mid-Atlantic states. These droughts and excessive heat spells were parts of the Dust Bowl and concurrent with the Great Depression in the United States.
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Summer 2023 was among the driest on record causing drought conditions to spread — threatening crops and forcing burn bans in 215 Texas counties. 150 Texas counties have USDA disaster labels due ...
The report from John Nielsen-Gammon, Texas State Climatologist at Texas A&M University, is an updated 2024 version from his original 2021 report titled, “Assessment of Historic and Future Trends ...
This visualization shows how the drought developed in the U.S. in 2010, 2011, and 2012. Dried up lake in Oklahoma as a result of the droughts. The 2010–2013 Southern United States and Mexico drought was a severe to extreme drought that plagued the Southern United States, including parts of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, and ...
The Texas Historical Commission has documented the sites of dozens of such sunken ships in the Sabine and Neches rivers. ... during an "exceptional drought" in East Texas, the river is low again ...