This round coming in tonight looks better for that.

Funny how we made it all the way back down to the level BEFORE the last rain a couple of days ago as is started to rain again. And look at that big downward spike and it's still raining!

And it took 4 days to evaporate down to the low and then it only took 2 days to evaporate back down to the same level AND from a higher starting point!

2 1/2 as of right now Keep up the good work

Still raining here. Started at 4 am and still going.

Man, it sure seems to rain a lot more out East of Dallas way. Well, hope ya'lls lakes including Fork are all at full pool level soon.
We did not get anywhere near that amount of rain on the Fort Worth and west side ....
I pray we get a lot more.

Yep. Fork levels are not purely effected by evaporation and rainfall. It nearly always drops back down to pre-rain levels within a day or two. And the 11th and 12th were nice cool days, not sunny 100 degree scorchers. Why did the level drop quicker on those two days than the 4 hotter days before?

Seems like y'all got a hole in your bath tub. Maybe the cows are drinking all the water. It's gotta be something "natural," because the authorities have made it very clear that it is NOT due to pumping.

I would assume it is the water leaching through the soils to the aquifers and replenishing 'ground water', because those are depleting with the drought as well. Don't forget the soil at the dry bottoms of the lake is a shrunken sponge, it has to expand again.

Stop being sensible. I like the black helicopters and the government agents with buckets taking it at midnight theory myself.

Okay, sorry...

The aliens have infected the soils with spores that collect water and return it to their ship that is cloaked above Dallas.

This topic was posted Friday night..technically Early Sat morning..not early in the AM Monday..so we have had some measurable rain the last few days here on the lake..as Matthew McConaughey would say ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT!! as for conspiracy theories I'm not in the loop on those.. so I cant speculate on them. But I have seen some strange objects in the sky after dark around the lake...just saying.

Maybe you can explain why it does it faster after the rain than before the rain? I would think that would happen at a consistent rate?

I don't have an explanation I can back up with proof. Same as most of these opinions. I do however keep weekly stats on Fork's water level for some reports I do and I have yet to see anything odd in those numbers going back 3-4 years. You can usually correalate the drop based on conditions and temps. I see the same seasonal patterns in terms of drops over that time so I do not see anything crazy going on past normal use.

I have read through all these conspiracy theories, have heard rumors of Fork being drained for the water pipe etc and still have yet to see any abnormal water loss. Hell I keep stats on 20 other area lakes and same deal they all fall based on seasonal norms. A lot of the others are not coming up despite significant rain in their watershed. Also people forget that wind/waves can affect the accuracy of the readings when they are taken.

This is an historic drought so its reasonable to think that the land around the lakes and watersheds are absorbing more than in normal years thus lowering the impact to Fork and other lakes as far as raising levels. Throw in the fact that it usually takes an already saturated ground to get the optimal benefit from runoff for the lakes and again its easy to reasonably think these issues affect the level rising.

So what are your theories? I have 3-4 years of records to look at to show the same basic rates of loss. What have you seen that disputes anything out of the norm?