The snow that fell across parts of West Texas in mid-January didn’t do much to help drought conditions on the South Plains, reports a Texas Tech University researcher. Once the snow melted, the amount of precipitation equaled less than an inch, said Glen Ritchie, chair of Texas Tech’s Department of Plant and Soil Science. The Lubbock area got just 11.5 inches of precipitation in all of 2020. The National Weather Service reports that’s the 10th lowest yearly total on record. The average is around 19 inches. It wasn’t as bad as some years in the past decade, but still low enough for ...