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Archive Home > 2012 > August > 18 > Sizzling summer has worsened severe drought

Sizzling summer has worsened severe drought

By Renee Schoof / The Bulletin
August 18, 2012

WASHINGTON — What can make a bad drought even worse? A sizzling summer, the likes of which the Lower 48 states haven’t seen since record-keeping started in 1895.

Fields of crops that are shriveled or still green with unproductive plants are clear signs of how damaging the summer has been,....

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