It’s Been Wetter Than Normal This Year In Arid Winkler County. Here’s A Chart And Why It Matters

The Kermit area is extremely dry, having averaged just 11 inches of precipitation per year since 2000 per NOAA records. That’s only about 1/3rd of the national average.

Locals we are in contact with as well as some environmental experts we’ve spoken with recently have mentioned that it has been an abnormally wet 2017 in the sandhills of West Texas. So we dug a little deeper and explored why this matters to all the sand mines going into operation out here and what exactly the rainfall figures look like.

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