drought

The drought gripping much of the state has some thinking back to 2011, the worst single-year drought in Texas history.

Much of the Great Plains is experiencing drought: So far, at least half of Nebraska, Kansas, and Iowa, and Oklahoma are abnormally dry, with large areas...

Texas is no stranger to droughts. From the bone-dry stretch of the 1950s, the state’s longest drought, to the fiery months of 2011, the state’s single...

Sheri Glazier is used to seeing dry conditions on the family farm in central Oklahoma around wheat harvesting time in June. But this year, the heat came...

Cattle ranchers in the Texas Hill Country are facing a tough decision after months of drought. “You have to decide where’s your quitting point in terms...

Twenty-four counties in West Texas and a number of counties in Western Oklahoma were designated by the federal government last week as primary natural…

Much of the Texas Panhandle and South Plains appears to be heading into severe drought conditions, despite heavy rains earlier in the summer.As The…

From Texas Standard: Despite a relatively wet May and June, it's gotten so dry in Texas ever since that more than 100 of the state's 254 counties are...

A recent report from NOAA’s National Centers for Environment Information shows there were 14 severe weather events across the country last year costing...

As extreme drought encroached on Colorado and much of the Southwest this year, many eyes turned to the weekly U.S. Drought Monitor map.