Despite a wet weekend, much of Western North Carolina is still in a drought following an abnormally warm and dry September. Here’s one outpost in the region that shows how this drought paints a larger picture of changes happening in Western North Carolina. Scientists at the Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory in Macon County have been tracking climate data since the 1930s. The lab is an experimental forest that has some of the longest-running data on stream flow, precipitation and temperature. “The