{"id":7286,"date":"2025-10-16T21:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/7286\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T21:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:25:10","slug":"texas-drought-conditions-persist-across-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/7286\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas drought: Conditions persist across the state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0494A946ABD8EFFFC9193C02118D08A0_8.jpg\" alt=\"Drought conditions persist across Texas\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; Today\u2019s Drought Monitor Update shows conditions worsening across Texas.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Comparing this week&#8217;s update to what conditions were last week, Dry, Moderate, and Extreme levels are increasing.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/drought-compare.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The Texas Hill Country \u2013 which includes the Austin and San Antonio areas \u2013 are under extreme conditions as a rapid drought continues to unfold.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/drought-wide.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">In the Houston area, portions of Chambers, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery and San Jacinto counties are in a moderate level. Wharton and Colorado counties are also seeing severe levels.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/drought-zoom.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">By the numbers:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The lack of rain across the state aids in the worsening of these drought conditions. Over the last six weeks, both Bush and Hobby airports have recorded a little over an inch of rainfall, whereas places like College Station and Huntsville have essentially been bone dry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this article comes from the FOX 26 weather team.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/weather\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weather<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; Today\u2019s Drought Monitor Update shows conditions worsening across Texas. Comparing this week&#8217;s update to what conditions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[223,27,29,28,216,393,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-7286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-texas","10":"tag-texas-headlines","11":"tag-texas-news","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7286","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=7286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}