This is a lengthy article, clips of which are included below.
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020328/3977377s.htm
"Last month was the nation's second-driest February since reliable
record-keeping began in 1895.
The period from Sept. 1 through Feb. 28 -- the months meteorologists
count as fall and winter -- was the driest for seven states and the
second-driest for four more.
Using temperature and precipitation data, federal scientists calculate
that severe or extreme drought has spread over 21% of the country.
Using U.S. Geological Survey data that track the flow of rivers
nationwide, the analysis identified 59 points on 57 rivers that reached
record low levels in March.
The analysis showed that 40 of those points also had reached a record
low in one of the months of December, January or February. Less water
flowed down these rivers than at any comparable time in at least 30
years and, in many cases, as long as 80 years.
Maine had its driest winter in the 108 years that records have been
kept. More than 1,000 wells have gone dry in small towns in Maine,
where some residents have been forced to haul drinking water from
springs in the next town."
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