2006–2008 Southeastern United States drought

The 2006–08 Southeastern United States drought was a crippling drought that struck the southeast of the U.S. Several reasons, including an unusually strong Bermuda high pressure and La Niña in the eastern Pacific Ocean (which causes dry conditions across the southern U.S.) were responsible for the drought.

2007 was particularly dry across the region, with rivers and lakes dropping to record-low levels.

[1] The drought was set in motion by the weather phenomenon La Niña which developed during 2005.

[2] On top of that, the Bermuda High, also known as the Azores High, a hot and dry air mass over the Atlantic, formed unusually far west, and blocked storms from entering the region, a pattern that wouldn't break until 2008.

North Carolina had its driest calendar year ever; several towns nearly ran out of water.