Turn Off the Water...Enough Already!

You would never imagine that someone would say enough is enough about rainfall, especially in an area where Texas has been stricken with a drought for several years. Well, thats the case right now over most of Texas and right here in Central Texas. I have never seen a weather pattern like this before where it just continues to rain over the same drenched areas for weeks and weeks. The image to the left shows the rain fall total for just the month of June. And many areas of Central Texas have seen anywhere from 4 to 6 inches or rain if not more. Officially at the Waco Regional Airport so far we have seen 5.40" for the month of June as of June 24th. Waco's normal June rainfall is 3.08" which we have already passed that. So far for the year 2007, Waco has recorded 34.84". And to just put things inperspective, the normal yearly average rainfall is 33.34" which again we have already passed that as of June 24th. We are nearly 18.02" above normal to date.The lakes are high and the rivers are swollen thanks to the heavy rainfall. Many wonder if they will even get to spend their 4th of July holiday out on the lake due to the closure of many lakes around Central Texas at this time. Some lakes in the area are anywhere from 8 to 19 feet above their normal pool level. And the bad news is, more rain is in the forecast for the same areas hardest hit with the recent flooding problems. Its not only the recreation aspect of things getting hurt by the heavy rains, the farmers are also dealing with problems from the flooding. There has been more rainy, cloudy days than there has been dry, sunny ones for them to get out in the fields and work on their crops.

Here is a look at the next round of possible flooding rainfall for Central Texas. This map shows a bulls eye over South Central Texas for Monday for up to an inch and a half of rain possible.





The next graphic shows the bulls eye of heaviest projected rainfall to move up I-35 into Central and North Texas on Tuesday. The amount could exceed another inch in most areas.




And finally this graphic is for Wednesday and showing the same areas getting more heavy rain fall with another inch and a half of rainfall possible for the middle part of the week. So adding all that up and some areas could be facing with another 2 to 4 inches of rainfall in the next few days...


The threat for flash flooding will be possible for the early part of the week so as the rains start up again and many of the swollen creeks and rivers start to rise over local highways and streets. Remember to Turn Around, Don't Drown.

As always, we like to get your responses and comments about the weather and how we can better give you the forecast. This blog is a way to pull back the curtain a little bit about weather and give you an inside look at the behind the scenes of forecast this crazy weather. We are trying to get you more involved with the weather and the NBC 6 WeatherPlus Team. If you have a digital camera and see something that would be interesting for a Weather Photo, take some pictures and email them to us at weather@kcentv.com

This blog is something new that I am just started doing. I will periodically post on here about different stuff about the weather locally and around the country. I will also post weather photos that you the reader and viewers from NBC 6 emailed into the WeatherPlus Team.

Before I go here is one of those pictures from Joe Sadler. He captured this near Bruceville the other day of some very scary storm clouds just above the horizon.

Thanks for stopping by...

-Mike