If San Antonio gets a week of rain, does it alleviate drought?
. Weather forecasts for the next week or two are looking wet — a welcome break from all the heat, dead-looking trees and dried-up lawns.San Antonio is an entire foot behind in rainfall. The region has gotten only 7 inches of rain; it typically gets just over 20 inches by this time of year. In order to make up for all the rainless months, San Antonio will need weeks and weeks of steady rain at either above average or average rates.
An ideal scenario for San Antonio is enough rain to get the ground wet, which primes the system. The dry soil will lap up the water quickly, but once it’s wet enough, another rainfall will soak in deeper and deeper, keeping the soil saturated for a while and working its way into the entire water system. As the weather grows cooler as well, the soil will not dry out as fast. However, another few weeks of drought would dry the soil up again, which is why the rain has to be steady and consistent.
The location of the rainfall also matters during drought, Bertetti said. West of San Antonio, where the Frio and Nueces rivers are dried up, rainfall needs to fall north in the Edwards Plateau around Edwards County or Real County. That rain then will trickle into the rivers and eventually deposit into the Edwards Aquifer, filling up the declining system.
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