extreme drought continues in portions of So Great Plains - Feb 12th update

I wrote about extreme drought conditions in portions of Southern Great Plains (OK and TX) on January 31st. At that time the National Weather Service Amarillo Texas was at day 110 with no measurable precipitation at their weather reporting station. On February 11th they were at day 121 with no measurable precipitation:



Look at the most recent drought monitor the area of extreme drought (D3) in red on the map has grown from what I reported on January 31st as has the area of severe drought (D2)

This severe and extreme drought in Texas and Oklahoma and environs continues to raise concerns for a possibly devastating wildfire season. See this article by The Eagle (February 11th) for some more information about the drought in Texas. Fire Danger for today, February 12th was high in the Texas Panhandle as reported by the Texas A&M Forest Service on their Twitter account.

The wildfire danger forecast for today shows the northern Texas Panhandle in high to very wildfire danger along with an area of high wildfire danger in far West Texas. #txfire #txwx pic.twitter.com/lu9Ke0dmaJ

— Texas A&M Forest Service Incident Information (@AllHazardsTFS) February 12, 2018