Another week, another seven days of little change in the drought in Georgia.
It has maintained its grip on about 65 percent of the state, including Hall County, where the intensity has remained the same. Hall, like a number of counties in northeast and northwest Georgia, is still considered “moderately” dry by the U.S. Drought Monitor (USDM). The same is true of parts of a few counties in west central Georgia and the southwest corner of the state.
Most of Georgia that is affected by the drought is considered “abnormally” dry, the least serious of all the classifications.
And the drought-free counties are aong and southeast and east of a line from Augusta to Macon to Thomasville.
The level of Lake Lanier is at 1066.9 down another three-tenths of a foot compared to last Thursday. And for the month of November, the lake was down 1.3 feet.