When all else fails, call for persistence of a multi-year drought — you’ll be right for awhile and when you are wrong no one will care. The CPC released their new 90 day outlooks late last week and it looks pretty clear that we could be in for a bit more drought as growing season and storm season approaches. The CPC has outlined hotter and drier conditions being especially expected across the Southern Plains, from Oklahoma and Texas into Eastern Colorado and SW Kansas. Drought conditions persisting through Spring will almost certainly have big impacts on storm season 2013 — from a further east dryline position most of the season, to moisture issues, to capping issues, to high cloud base issues as temperatures warm quicker than normal later in the season. That’s not to say we won’t have good storms to chase this Spring, but that there definitely could be some big detriments to the chase season if the CPC forecast comes through as accurate.