5 years after Hurricane Harvey, Rockport, Dickinson, and Port Arthur are bouncing back! But to avoid devastation from future storms, there is still work to be done.
The two binational reservoirs of the Rio Grande, Lake Falcon and Amistad, have reached historically low levels. Without rain, current supplies will run dry by March 2023 for about 3 million people living in the area.
This New York Times article goes step-by-step through the wastewater surveillance process for tracking viruses such as COVID-19, Monkeypox, and now polio.
After flash floods struck the Dallas Fort-Worth area Sunday night, rainfall totals in several areas would be considered a 1-in-1,000-year flood. The frequency of such high-precipitation events is increasing, as shown by the extreme flooding in St. Louis, eastern Kentucky, and southeastern Illinois in just one week.
This week's TWDB drought watch shows improvement in South Texas after Invest 98L, a low-pressure system from the Gulf of Mexico, brought significant rain to the region.