Healthy Rainfall Amounts Over the Weekend

We had widespread rain over North Texas this past weekend giving all residents at least 1" of rain.  Many locations saw 2 to 4" of rain since Friday.   Here's a exhaustive list compiled by the National Weather Service of rainfall amounts.

The rainfall did put a big dent in our drought, but did not end it altogether.  It went a long way to moisten up our soils.  The water from the rain was soaked up by a parched land, but not as much made it into our lakes or reservoirs.  Most of the lakes have filled up a bit more over the weekend.  Some have really gone up, such as Lake Arlington and Lake Worth.

Some lakes didn't have a chance to fill up at all...even worse the lake capacities dropped at Granbury Lake and Possum Kingdom Lake since late last month.