US Drought Monitor and Summary, Sept. 30, 2014

An inch or more of rain fell in parts of the South, with locally 3 inches or more in western and southern Texas. These rains, and rains from previous weeks, helped replenish soil moisture and refill reservoirs, so D0-D3 were contracted in the west and south. On a statewide basis, little change occurred in the topsoil and subsoil moisture conditions, with 53 percent of topsoil and 61 percent of subsoil in Texas short or very short of moisture, and 31 percent of the pasture and rangeland in poor to very poor condition. Read more at droughtmonitor.unl.edu…