Drought To Continue: Growers can expect to rely heavily on irrigation in 2008, that is if water is available

摘要

Everyone in the Southeast was hoping that the winter would bring more rainfall and signal an end to the drought that has been all the news for the past couple of years. However, Joel Paz from the University of Georgia's Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, says that these few events of favorable weather are not going to last. The overall climate forecast is for continued warm and dry conditions caused by a full-blown La Nina event.