It’s... happening. Texas has only been ~green this year due to tropical storms, otherwise 1/3 of the state would be in that dark blood-red color on the drought map.
Some gardeners and myself have been discussing our plantlife, and are puzzled at the lack of ‘ummphh’ everything is showing. At 6am on the news was peanut farmers who dug up their peanuts, and while the shells where goodlooking, there were no nuts inside.
Well, it'd become "semi-arid" anyway.
We’ve had no more than a trace since the tropical storm gave us 15 inches in 30 hours. That was back at the end of September here just NW of Austin.