Watch Medina Lake slowly disappear with time-lapse satellite photos

Medina Lake: 2008



After a very wet 2007 -- the 7th wettest on record -- Texas went right back into drought conditions in 2008 and 2009. Medina Lake: 2008



After a very wet 2007 -- the 7th wettest on record -- Texas went right back into drought conditions in 2008 and 2009. Photo: TIME/Google/NASA Photo: TIME/Google/NASA Image 1 of / 48 Caption Close Watch Medina Lake slowly disappear with time-lapse satellite photos 1 / 48 Back to Gallery

The drought continues to be a problem for most Texans. This week 60 percent of the state is still experiencing drought conditions, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.

And bodies of water in Central Texas have been some of the hardest hit by the constant shortage of rain.

Medina Lake, long a San Antonio destination for outdoor family fun, counts itself among those lakes struggling with the dry conditions.

The lake's capacity is 254,884 acre feet, which converts to just over 83 billion gallons. That is enough to fill the Alamodome nearly 145 times.

Today the lake's water level is 3.3 percent full, enough to only fill four Alamodomes.

See Medina Lake's transformation in the slideshow above, a series of satellite photographs spanning 2008-2012, then continue to see a lake-level timeline of Medina's dwindling shoreline.

The satellite imagery is now available through a TIME and Google partnership, which gathered NASA Landsat images from 1984 to 2012 to show our changing planet in a new and exciting way.

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