Photo Courtesy Lower Colorado River AuLingering drought conditions throughout Central Texas will likely keep Lake Travis well below capacity through early 2013.
With lakes Travis and Buchanan at 42 percent capacity and little rainfall predicted in the upcoming months, Central Texas' severe drought looks as if it will linger at least through the first four months of 2013, according to Bob Rose, Lower Colorado River Authority meteorologist.
Conditions took a turn for the worse at the end of 2012 as the region received little rain during the fall, typically Texas' wettest season.
"This has been one of the driest October/November periods on record," Rose said. "With not getting very much rain this fall ... that has caused the drought conditions to grow a lot worse."
