Thursday Top of the Scroll: California abnormally dry after low precipitation winter
Drought has expanded to nearly a quarter of the state, mainly in central California, the heart of the state’s agricultural sector, according to a U.S. Drought Monitor map made public Thursday. The map shows 70 percent of the state is abnormally dry.
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