Texas Climate Monitor

Current Drought Indicators (For education purposes)

Office of the State Climatologist (Texas A&M)

Drought Information Summary (Texas Water Development Board)

Keetch-Byram Drought Index (KBDI) (TWC)

Texas Fire Danger Maps (TWC)

Crop Moisture Index (NOAA)

Palmer Drought Severity Index (NOAA)

Water Data For Texas

National Drought Summary -

DEFINITION OF DROUGHT

Tree Watering Tips: Caring for trees during extreme drought.

Dryness Categories

D0 ... Abnormally Dry ... used for areas showing dryness but not yet in drought, or for areas recovering from drought.

Drought Intensity Categories

D1 ... Moderate Drought

D2 ... Severe Drought

D3 ... Extreme Drought

D4 ... Exceptional Drought

Drought or Dryness Types

A ... Agricultural

H ... Hydrological

Historic Information

Texas Water Resources, Summer 1996 Vol. 22, No. 2 (Rick Jensen, TWRI)

To Love The Beautiful: The Story of Texas State Parks - "So Would Hell" (TX State Library)

Water Conservation

Denver, Colorado's Water Conservation Plan

Texas A&M University

The Hydroillogical Cycle

Drought Management

Resources on El Nino and La Nina

ENSO Quick Look

IRI Map Room

NOAA

NOAA WATCH

National Weather Service

Pacific Decadal Oscillation

Skeptical Science: The PDO

Earth System Research Laboratory

National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center

NOAA Space Weather Prediction

Great Plains Region