For the last three months, the majority of Georgia has been under abnormally dry conditions, and that was set to carry on through New Year’s Eve.
Wednesday morning, 99.6% of Georgia was in a drought. Muscogee County has seen severe drought conditions since early October, the U.S Drought Monitor reported.
“Over a 16-week period, Sept. 9 to December 30, drought expanded to cover nearly the entire state of Georgia,” Rocky Bilotta, a scientist with the National Center for Environmental Information, said in an email.
While dry conditions in the fall and winter are an expected weather pattern in the South during a La Niña period, according to meteorologist Katie Martin with the National Weather Service in Peachtree City, the below-average rainfall and high temperatures last week have created cause for concern…