For the first time in more than two years, the majority of California is in moderate drought, not severe drought
A series of atmospheric river storms since Christmas has significantly reduced California’s drought, the federal government concluded Thursday.
The last time California had no land area at all in severe drought was nearly three years ago, on March 10, 2020, after a disappointing winter rain and snow season that year began a three-year arid stretch. Since late December, the weather, and California’s drought outlook, has shifted dramatically. California has been hammered by six atmospheric river storms since Christmas. They have caused flooding in coastal areas and the Sacramento Valley, and sent the Sierra snowpack to 226% of its historic average.
State and federal officials have welcomed the rain and snow. But they have cautioned in recent days that the drought is not year over, because the largest reservoirs in California, which fell to dangerously low levels last summer, are not yet full. “We will be reassessing in the later part of January what this means relative to overall drought,” said Karla Nemeth, director of the state Department of Water Resources, on Monday.
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