The National Weather Service is reporting lakes and reservoirs across West Central Texas continue to recede as drought conditions persist in spite of some areas receiving heavy rainfall over the last week.
Before the last week of heavy rains across most of Texas, Texas Parks & Wildlife Department Dove Program Leader Owen Fitzsimmons had predicted dove concentrations would be near scarce water sources.
No challenge is too great for Texans to address, and I commend Mayor Johnson, the City of Dallas, and emergency response personnel for their prolific life-saving response to yesterday's unprecedented flooding event in North Texas.
Throughout the day on Monday, the city was brought to a standstill as officials urged motorists to stay off the roads and carried out rescues of those whose vehicles were caught in the floodwaters.
Showers and thunderstorms moved across West Central Texas over the weekend dumping enough rain to cause flooding in the Permian Basin, the Big Country and along the I-10 corridor but San Angelo for the most part remained dry.
The National Weather Service is forecasting a threat of heavy rainfall and flash flooding in parts of West Texas, South Texas, and the Panhandle into the start of the week.
The oppressive summer heat wave appears to be over and there is a good chance of rain across the Concho Valley everyday for the next seven days beginning Sunday afternoon.
Rain is expected to form across the San Angelo area Thursday afternoon between 1 and 4 p.m. and some of the slow moving thunderstorms could product 1/2 to 2 inches of rain.
Texas hunting and fishing licenses (except the Year-from-Purchase All-Water Fishing Package) for the current year expire at the end of August. The new licenses for the 2022-23 season go on sale Aug. 15.
