Experts: Drought could continue in southern USA

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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — most of them in the South — is expected to drag on for several months or intensify, posing a risk for more wildfires, agriculture problems and water restrictions, national weather experts said Monday.

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Portions of Texas and a small part of eastern Louisiana are the only parts of the nation that rank in the National Weather Service’s worst drought condition category, said Victor Murphy, the climate service program manager for the National Weather Service’s southern region, based in Fort Worth. The “exceptionalâ€