Is the Georgian drought over?

Q: Is the Georgian drought over?

A: Yes, the Georgian drought is over this year, due to all the excess rain they have had this year, over 15″ in Atlanta. Most areas of Georgia have already recieved a month’s worth of rain if not more. During an El Nino year, the subtropical jet is more dominant over the northern jet and that helps to supply ample amounts of moisture and also the Eastern Pacific Oscillation(EPO) is negative, so no areas of high pressure are likely to build and persist in the southeast which had resulted in previous years due to the La Nina, a positive EPO helps build a ridge in the southeast and that in turn makes it drier in the southern states and most of the moisture is well west and north of the southern states. The drought could come back in the future if there is a +EPO signal which tends to lead to a massive area of high pressure over the southeast keeping dry and mild conditions dominant and over a few months of being bone dry, Georgia can indeed enter into a drought state.