Wildfires and no drought relief in sight for Southwest

Climate Central: Water, water, everywhere, but not a drop to spare. Across large parts of the Southwest, that is. All along the Mississippi River, from Illinois to Louisiana, record floods continue to drown towns and farmland following the wettest April on record for several states in the Ohio River valley, which has in turn engorged the Mississippi. But while some areas remain under water, other regions have been suffering from the opposite extremes of drought and wildfire. In fact, tinder-dry conditions across......

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