"If drought conditions extend into 2023, Reclamation will find it increasingly difficult, if not impossible, to meet all the competing needs of the Central Valley Project without beginning the implementation of additional and more severe water conservation actions," the bureau said in a news release...
What can California expect for the rest of 2025? The U.S. Climate Prediction Center's seasonal outlook through March suggests thatdrought is likely to developin the region in the coming months. The outlooktakes into account forecasts for La Niña, an ocean temperature pattern that wa...
Riverside, Orange and San Diego counties, has fallen into moderate drought conditions, according to a U.S. Drought Monitormap released this week. The last time the Southland saw similarly dry conditions was in early 2023, as the state was exiting apunishing, years-long ...
Drought conditions have mostly disappeared in California. It’s a first in more than a decade Abnormally dry conditions were removed from Siskiyou and Modoc counties for the first time... ByJack Lee California Cost of California’s largest water project in decades rises to $20 billion ...
who say federal water allocations have been too limited in the past two years since ample rain boosted reservoir levels. A series of major storms in 2023 helped California emerge from a multi-year drought, but dry conditions have started to return in the central and southern...
Hydroclimate whiplash -- the rapid shift between wet and dry conditions -- likely contributed to the severity of the wildfires burning in Southern California, according to experts. In recent years, parts of the state shifted from a major drought to an extended period of above-average precipitat...
The report covers annual data through July 1 and then projects water availability through June 30, 2023. The Department of Water Resources suggested in a guidance document published in April that agencies base their assessments on the current year's drought conditions and best available drought outlo...
A series of major storms in 2023 helped California emerge from a multi-year drought, but dry conditions have started to return in the central and southern parts of the state. Trump has now directed the federal government again to route more water in the system it controls to farmers and...
[00:49.00]Experts say the series of storms will help drought conditions, [00:53.52]but it is not yet clear exactly how much. [00:59.00]However, the rain and snow will not be enough [01:03.04]to fix some of California'...
The storm marked the state's 10thatmospheric riverof the winter, storms that have brought enormous amounts of rain and snow to the state and helped lessen the drought conditions that had dragged on for three years. State reservoirs that had dipped to strikingly low levels are now well above ...