The government's winter forecast includes some bad news--continued dry conditions in an arc sweeping from the Southeast across the Gulf States and into the Southwest.

Much of that region is already struggling with drought and "right now they are looking at the second consecutive dry winter," Michael Halpert, head of forecast operations at the Climate Prediction Center in Camp Springs,

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