Texas Drought of Record 2011

This is not fall color; this is Labor Day in Austin. Fall color doesn’t begin until Thanksgiving in Austin. This is the result of the worst drought Texas has ever recorded, the new Drought of Record, 2011. Some of these trees died, some were just defoliated. This drought was the lowest rainfall year Teas has ever received, and in Austin there were 90, 100-degree days, where the twentieth century average was 11.5 days per year.