Oklahoma’s current drought is bad, but residents lived through worse, climatologist says
OKLAHOMA CITY – While nearly the entire state is in a drought, the state climatologist doesn’t expect it to break many records. “It is not even as bad as the one we had in the fall of 2022,” said Gary McManus, state climatologist. “We’ve had many bad droughts. This is just the latest of those […]
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