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It also marked the end of the wettest 12-month period in NOAA's 125 years of record-keeping.
Meteorologists are warning Hurricane Florence could be as bad as 1954s Hurricane Hazel, one of the worst storms to ever make landfall in the United States.
More than 137,000 people have fled their homes.
Researchers say warming trends are responsible for as much as 20 percent of the drought.