January rain in Northern California and ample snowpack from a series of early winter storms helped ease the worst drought conditions in California.
Northern California received several inches of precipitation over the last week, adding to rain and snow from several storms in December.This week's drought reports also shows improvement in other less severe categories. Extreme Drought, the second most severe category, was reduced to a few small patches in Northern California.
"Based on the abundant precipitation and ample snowpack observed so far this winter, improvement was brought into several areas," according to the Drought Monitor summary."Most notably, most of the large D3 area covering interior portions of northern and central California were reduced to D2 ."“When we started December, we were in extreme drought conditions,” said NBCLA forecaster Belen De Leon. “But Mother Nature was good to us in December, we had storm after storm.
The state is “definitely not out of the woods quite yet," said Sean de Guzman, manager of the snow surveys and water supply forecasting for the California Department of Water Resources. Prolonged hot and dry conditions over moths and years means water evaporates at a faster rate from reservoirs and the Sierra Nevada snowpack that feeds them. The snowpack usually melts in spring or early summer, then that water flows into the state’s vast storage and distribution system.
About a third of California's water supply comes from snow as it melts and flows down from the Sierra Nevada and the Shasta-Trinity mountain range in northern California.
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