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encing global warming first hand. It is not clear that such i: the case however, and scien tists seem even less certaii what the impact of globa farming will be on local an< regional precipitation levels and trends. Scientists at th( National Oceanic anc Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Centei (CPC) call for improvement o the models' used to predict th< weather—esfpscially precipita tion—but it is not clear wher and how successfully sue! improvements will be made.
Meanwhile, CPC is stil short of good news—it says thai the drought “is likely to persisi or intensify” through November of this year in tht region, and it shows an expan sion of contiguous droughl
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