How Swings Between Wet and Dry Periods Make Drought Hard to Predict
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How Swings Between Wet and Dry Periods Make Drought Hard to Predict

This year North Texas has been through drought, flooding, and back to drought again. NBC 5 Meteorologist Samantha Davies explains how this weather setup could make future droughts hard to plan for.

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