From today's New York Times: 'Worst drought in nearly 100 years racking three-quarters of Texas'

Michael Stravato for the NewYorkTimes

“The last time we had a drought this bad was in January 1918,” said John Nielsen-Gammon, the state climatologist. “The droughts in the 1950s in individual years were not as bad as this.” Mr. Nielsen-Gammon, a professor at Texas A&M, said the weather had been unusually dry for the last year and a half, but since August, much of the central part of the state — a broad swath from just south of Dallas, through Austin and San Antonio and down to Corpus Christi — had gotten little or no rain. Even last year’s hurricanes, Dolly and Ike, did not help, he said.

See the story here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/us/12drought.html

For drought updates: http://newagnews.tamu.edu/drought/