Across a dozen states, this fall has been marked by weeks without rain, resulting in decreased groundwater levels and warnings to residents to conserve water.
But this isn’t the increasingly arid Mountain West. It’s New Jersey.
Federal researchers report this month that nearly 94 percent of all areas across a dozen Northeastern and mid-Atlantic states — from Maine south to West Virginia and Maryland — are somewhere between “abnormally dry” and “exceptional drought.”
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Weeks without precipitation in the same regions, combined with above average temperatures, have created usually dry conditions, and raise the stakes for an extended drought if winter weather fails to deposit moisture.
