Drought continues in much of U.S.

The next three months may have some tough weather in store for us, according to the U.S. Climate Prediction Center. With much of the western and southern U.S. entering their sixth or seventh year of drought, there is no obvious end in sight. Many parts of southern California have just recorded the driest autmn/winter period in at least 112 years, Arizona is facing its longest drought on record, and in March, unusually warm weather melted snowpack and increased wildfire threats,…