Visitors to the Big Bend country in May noticed a conspicuous absence: the Rio Grande, whose great arching pathway gives this region its name.
Where cool water used to flow, a dry, cracking riverbed now snakes through some of Texas’ most iconic landscapes.
Near Santa Elena Canyon, a river gage measured 0 cubic feet per second for the first time on record on April 28, and it stayed that way for most of the next month.
