The drought in parts of the Western Corn Belt is intensifying and a climatologist says the 90-day outlook doesn’t look promising.   

Brian Fuchs is with the National Drought Mitigation Center. “We start getting into April and May, we see our precipitation numbers really start jumping and we would hope normal precipitation would be enough to change that drought status but those outlooks that are going through the end of May aren’t showing any relief.”

He says he’s concerned this could be like the drought in 2012.

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