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Nov 25, 2010 at 12:13 PM EDT
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Nov 25, 2010 at 6:19 PM EDT
State climatologist David Stooksbury says drought is likely to return to Georgia next summer.
State climatologist David Stooksbury says drought is likely to return to Georgia next summer.
Stooksbury, a professor of engineering and atmospheric sciences at the University of Georgia, says much of metro Atlanta and south
Georgia already are in drought. He says Athens and northeast Georgia are classified as abnormally dry.
Stooksbury predicts a warm and dry winter because of a La Nina pattern forming in the Pacific Ocean. He says it looks like not
enough rain will fall on Georgia to carry the state through the hot, dry summer months.
Georgia emerged last year from a three-year drought.
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