January was drier, warmer than normal

Two thirds of Texas is now in drought, according to hydrologist Mark Wentzel with the Texas Water Development Board. That is up 13 percentage points from late December.“The small improvements in temperature and precipitation we saw in January weren’t enough to end drought expansion in our state,” Wentzel wrote.Meanwhile, both the 2026 Old Farmer’s Almanac and the Farmers?...

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