'Exceptional' drought area in Arkansas triples
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) -- Red, orange and brown, they are the colors of fall but you can find them all over Conway County in the middle of July.
"It's really developed over just one and a half month period or so. This is what's called a flash drought. In other words, one that comes on very suddenly," says John Robinson with the National Weather Service at Little Rock.
He says hot temperatures and little rainfall since May has caused the U.S. Drought Monitor to put more than 10 percent of the state in the most intense drought category.