| (WSB Radio) -- Rain in metro Atlanta this week may have saved millions of dollars of shrubs and ornamentals surrounding north Georgia homes, but State Climatologist David Stooksbury says Georgia's drought isn't going away anytime soon. Stooksbury says odds are it will be a warmer than normal winter with below normal rainfall. He says the strength of a La Nina pattern, now forming in the Pacific, will determine just how much or how little rain is received in the Southeast in the coming weeks. Stooksbury says unless the forecast is wrong, next summer won't be pretty. |