{"id":324956,"date":"2026-06-06T01:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T01:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/324956\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T01:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T01:53:10","slug":"most-of-central-texas-still-in-moderate-to-extreme-drought-despite-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/324956\/","title":{"rendered":"Most of Central Texas still in \u2018moderate\u00a0to extreme\u2019 drought despite rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:KXAN;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kxan.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"KXAN\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/232C1E841BC0BB863E0E9B74B574D5BADEBDCEDD7912DF6C56EBCD799BAD61E9\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefill_w0_h40;quality_80;format_webp\/\"\/><\/a>Fri, June 5, 2026 at 9:34 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"976\" height=\"580\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_kxan_articles_524\/a3398b0837fee1fc5d7e1cdbd871d549.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Most of Central Texas still in \u2018moderate\u00a0to extreme\u2019 drought despite rain<\/p>\n<p>AUSTIN (KXAN) \u2014 An updated drought map released Thursday still shows most counties in the KXAN viewing area are still undergoing a drought, despite recent rains.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:What are the current water restrictions in your city?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/current-water-restrictions-city-021743998.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0What are the current water restrictions in your city?\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The data comes from the <a data-ylk=\"slk:U.S. Drought Monitor;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/CurrentMap\/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?TX\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Drought Monitor<\/a>, which has been online since 1999.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_kxan_articles_524\/a3398b0837fee1fc5d7e1cdbd871d549.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy U.S. Drought Monitor<\/p>\n<p>At least 7.5 million Texans live in droughted counties, according to the monitor.<\/p>\n<p>Rainfall since March 3 appears to have lessened Texas&#8217; drought; at that time, 98.89% of Texas were ranked on the map. That&#8217;s dropped to 73.88% since then.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to a year ago, more counties are dry or under drought conditions. However, fewer are under an extreme or exceptional drought.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_kxan_articles_524\/b9926b8af7ded63d22c2eaee6c127562.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy U.S. Drought Monitor<\/p>\n<p>In March, KXAN reported that the Hill Country would need 26.65\u2033 of rain by the end of June to slake the region&#8217;s drought.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KXAN Austin.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kxan.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KXAN Austin.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fri, June 5, 2026 at 9:34 PM UTC Most of Central Texas still in \u2018moderate\u00a0to extreme\u2019 drought despite&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,7607,116200,8044],"class_list":["post-324956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-drought-conditions","tag-exceptional-drought","tag-kxan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}