Скачать или смотреть Gregory Waller soundbite on drought information from TexMesonet

Gregory Waller—Service Coordination Hydrologist, National Weather Service: "Texas is known for going through periods of extreme drought, followed by periods of floods. And when you're in the drought, then it becomes critical for agriculture, the drought declaration. The National Weather Service precipitation products are included by the state climatologist in the decision making of where to outline drought. If you have rain events during this drought, because drought can mean just lower-than-normal rain, we want to make sure we're not overestimating. And the Texas Mesonet will allow our precipitation estimates to be more accurate, even on the light rain events, so that we have a better idea of the soil moisture conditions and the drought conditions. So, it actually adds accuracy to the drought products as well, by having a dense network to verify rain that has fallen."


For information on the TWDB TexMesonet program, visit https://texmesonet.org/About or email us at [email protected].


Visit the TexMesonet map viewer here: https://www.texmesonet.org.