{"id":217894,"date":"2025-09-11T10:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T10:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/217894\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T10:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T10:08:13","slug":"drought-conditions-improving-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/217894\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought conditions improving, for now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent rainfall to be reflected in today\u2019s drought update<\/p>\n<p>San Antonio and the Hill Country have seen higher than average rainfall over the last 30 days, improving our drought situation. (Copyright KSAT-12 2025 &#8211; All Rights Reserved)<b>FORECAST HIGHLIGHTS<\/b><\/p>\n<ul class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 kDvXdO font_openSans articleList\">\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\">\n<p><b>DROUGHT:<\/b> Weekly update by 9am, likely shows improvement <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\">\n<p><b>CONSISTENT WEATHER:<\/b> Comfortable mornings, hot and dry afternoons continue<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\">\n<p><b>THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL:<\/b> Warm temperatures, sunset at 7:43pm<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>FORECAST<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Yes, it\u2019s been a dry week, but this past weekend\u2019s rainfall likely put a dent in our drought situation. We\u2019ll find out for sure around 8:30am when the weekly drought monitor is issued. We\u2019ll update it here as soon as it comes in. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>LAKE LEVELS<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">One factor that plays into the drought update is the level of area reservoirs. While they are still very low, we have seen improvements over the last three months.<\/p>\n<p>Lake levels have shown improvement over the last 3 months. (Copyright KSAT-12 2025 &#8211; All Rights Reserved)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>STEADY FORECAST<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">If nothing else, the weather has been consistent this week and the pattern shows few signs of change. As for today, expect a comfortable morning (near 70) and evening, while the afternoon (mid-90s) will be toasty. The only small change is that a shower or two could briefly pop up southeast of San Antonio. The rain chance is 10% or lower. <\/p>\n<p>A small chance of a brief shower exists, mainly SE of SA today (Copyright KSAT-12 2025 &#8211; All Rights Reserved)Today&#8217;s high temperatures (Copyright KSAT-12 2025 &#8211; All Rights Reserved)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>FOOTBALL GAMES<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Thanks to lower humidity levels, it\u2019ll be hot at kickoff, but not so bad by halftime. Sunset is at 7:43pm, allowing temps to quickly fall into the 80s. <\/p>\n<p>Thursday night football forecast (Copyright KSAT-12 2025 &#8211; All Rights Reserved)Daily Forecast<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kiwhtN\">KSAT meteorologists keep you on top of the ever-changing South Texas weather.<\/p>\n<p><b>QUICK WEATHER LINKS<\/b><\/p>\n<ul class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 kDvXdO font_openSans articleList\">\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\"\/>\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\"\/>\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\"\/>\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\"\/><\/ul>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 nALdY copyright\">Copyright 2025 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the AuthorJustin Horne headshot<a class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__LinkBase-sc-1fnzlkn-9 eUojqd gMnWPT\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/team\/7572PZEZNNHY7E2SK2HYT7W7CQ\/\" title=\"View Justin Horne&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Horne<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 gnunoy bOlrXa\">Justin Horne is a meteorologist and reporter for KSAT 12 News. When severe weather rolls through, Justin will hop in the KSAT 12 Storm Chaser to safely bring you the latest weather conditions from across South Texas. On top of delivering an accurate forecast, Justin often reports on one of his favorite topics: Texas history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recent rainfall to be reflected in today\u2019s drought update San Antonio and the Hill Country have seen higher&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":217895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,1599,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-217894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-forecast","10":"tag-san-antonio","11":"tag-sanantonio","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115185117010434545","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}