Climate Center Sees Drought Getting Worse in Western US

Drought pressures will increase in California and western areas of the United States this spring even as the dry season begins, the government's Climate Prediction Center said Thursday. "Periods of record warmth in the West and not enough precipitation during the rainy season cut short drought relief in California this winter, and prospects for above-average temperatures this spring may make the situation worse,'' Jon Gottschalck, chief of the Operational Prediction...

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