A new survey came out for drought situations in Texas and Wichita Falls is in a place it's quite familiar with from a few years ago.

Drought Conditions Throughout Texas This Week

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Well it's October and many of us are used to hearing about droughts from June to August in Wichita Falls. However a new map was released this week showing the drought conditions in Texas and as you can see for the Wichita County and surrounding area we have been bumped up into the extreme category. The only ones worse off than our area are parts of West Texas that are currently in the exceptional drought category.

What is Extreme Drought?

The National Weather Service officially defines Extreme Drought as "Major crop/pasture losses, extreme fire danger, widespread water shortages or restrictions." Wichita County has been under a burn ban since late August and is not set to be lifted until November 18th. With us in this Extreme Drought category, it does not look likely that the burn ban would be lifted early.

Current Wichita Falls Lake Levels

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Technically Wichita Falls is operating in the normal category, but barely. Due to lack of rain in our area, we will probably move into the watch zone very soon since we're 1.2% away from that as of 4 days ago. The one positive with the lack of rain in our forecast. Cooler temperatures are on the way. Wichita Falls set some new record highs this week for temperatures. Starting on Monday, they're predicting highs in the mid 80's.

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