California's drought woes are improving

1/26/2017 (Permalink)

The US National Weather Service recently made the following post on their San Diego California Facebook page:

"Thanks to a very wet January, California’s drought woes are improving. Since the start of the water year on 1 October 2016 over one-third of the state has been removed from drought by the U. S. Drought Monitor. California’s largest reservoir, the Sierra Snowpack, is looking very healthy right now thanks to January being the snowiest month on record for many locations in the Sierra Nevada including Lake Tahoe and Mammoth Mountain. However, much of California is still in a drought due to dry conditions since 2012 leaving some places in Southern California with precipitation deficits of one to two years worth of rainfall."

While it looks like California is on the road to recovery, we should still do our parts to conserve water as much as possible.