If you check out the national drought monitor map, you'll see that California has gone from "We're drying up and blowing away" (dark brown on the map) to "We've got a bunch of snow and water, but please don't stop the storms just yet." Nevada, Utah, and the prairie states 1000 miles to the east are much worse off.
The U.S. Drought Monitor is jointly produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Map courtesy of NDMC.
The Drought Monitor doesn't just look at how much snow or rain has fallen (the snow at our house is up to the second floor) but also looks at the reservoirs and other aspects of drought. According to a reservoir tracking website: https://engaging-data.com/ca-reservoir-dashboard/ our current reservoir storage in California reservoirs is at 94% of historical average. Which means we're still not up to the normal storage for this time of year. But we're getting closer! Stay tuned...
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