Reply #16: It's definitely a horrible drought. Droughts have happened before [View All]

and will happen again, regardless of human activity. I'd say overdevelopment in the South may be a bigger problem than climate change.

Interesting quotation I found from your drought 7 years ago:


But as unusual as the current drought may seem, one expert contends that it is part of a historically more normal climate pattern. Georgia's State Climatologist David Stooksbury, who also is a professor of engineering in the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, doesn't see drought as strange or even unusual.

"The state of Georgia now has returned to a more normal climate pattern, with greater year-to-year variability," says Stooksbury. "Drought is part of the overall history of the Southeast. But the history also contains long periods of wetter weather.

"We will have more years that are extremely wet and more years that are extremely dry, which historically is the more common pattern."