How Bad Was The Drought Of 2009?

The Houston Chronicle has science blog that I have learned to enjoy. Although it focuses quite a bit on NASA, it covers many other topics as well.

Today they blog addressed "the great drought of 2009", indicating that it was largely over. That post has a couple of drought maps that I found particularly interesting (see below). The map on the left shows Texas drought conditions on August 4, 2009 while the one on the right shows the current conditions (click the image to see a larger version).

Read the blog post here.