Orlando Sentinel: Central Florida should brace for another drought in 2009. The Climate Prediction Center shows a big part of Florida — from near Tallahassee to Lake Okeechobee — will be withering in a dry spell by early spring. The federal agency’s experts think sparse rainfall will persist across much of the Southeast until late spring. It would be the state’s fourth year in a row for drought, and the eighth this decade. State officials are standing by with response plans that include …