For the weather watchers this year.... looks like wet spring and maybe the summer, too.

"An El Niño event favors wetter winters across the south and the southwestern United States and drier and warmer winters in the Pacific Northwest," Aaron Levine, a research scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean and Ecosystem Studies at the University of Washington"

"The ongoing El Niño event is expected to last at least until April 2024, influencing weather patterns and contributing to a further spike in temperatures, both on land and in the ocean."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/el-ni%C3%B1o-forecasts-2024-weather-to-be-radically-different-than-last-year/ar-AA1m0JDG?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=4b4f82ecf66f4b5bb6f76aec3474a6e9&ei=33

El Nino years are usually very good for antler production and fawn survival rates

What about the cold and wet winter we were supposed to have….

It was supposed to be extra cold and I’ve got butterflies flying around my ranch.

Should be good for the Bigfoot population, as well.

one can only hope

My ponds/tanks are all at around 30% capacity. Spring fed creek has stopped flowing. Bring on the floods.

They found a new hotel in downtown Weatherford to hunker down in this year! LOL!

Local retired meteorologist said that “it doesn’t mean that it’s going to rain, it just improves the chances of rain”. I always thought that the Debbie downer doom & gloom guys with their “the state’s going to dry up” talk, were . Right now, they are sure looking a lot smarter. I think Medina is down to something like 3% full or 97% empty and Canyon is at a record low. Chokes getting close to a record low as well.

Medina has been in a bad way my entire life. I'm 63. I think human design and planning, or lack thereof, might have something to do with it. 'Never understood why people live/move out there. 'Same with Canyon. When I was a kid, folks would get a place on Canyon and act like it was an estate on Lake Tahoe. 'More like cedar choppers.

Oh, there's "climate change", it's just been going on since God spoke and it's in the natural order of things.

I heard cool and wet. Maybe still waiting on the cool, but my Mills county place has had 20” of rain since August 27, and my home in Lubbock has been above avg in that same timeframe.

Medina has a very narrow watershed and it has to catch rain in very localized spots to put water into it. They also irrigate out of it as well as supply water to SAWS so it’s getting drained.

Canyon also supplies water to various municipalities so it’s got a drain on it that it did not in decades past.

Choke, they don’t want it to be full. It rains they open the gates and send the water down to lake Mathis. If Mathis is full they open their gates to send it into the gulf. They are in record as stating they don’t want Choke to ever be full again.


However, these reservoirs were built to hold water for municipal use. The recreation was just a by product.

And recreation beetches the most.