Friday Top of the Scroll: How dire is the drought? One of California’s biggest reservoirs could hit its lowest level ever
Normally at this time of year, workers at Lake Oroville’s two marinas are preparing for a deluge of visitors eager to spend the summer lazing on houseboats, zipping across the water on speed boats or cruising the sprawling lake’s rocky nooks and coves in search of salmon. But this spring, after two years of scant rainfall, they’ve pulled about 130 houseboats out of the shallower reaches of the marinas and are closing boat launch ramps as the lake recedes, likely to record-low levels by the fall…Three of the lake’s five boat launch ramps have already closed, a fourth may close Monday and the last is expected to be shut down in weeks…
Related articles:
- The New York Times: Maps Show the Severe Drought Gripping California and the West
- NBC Los Angeles: Map – ‘Exceptional’ Drought Expands in California With a Hot and Dry Summer Just Around the Corner
- The Atlantic: Photos - California’s growing drought disaster
- WSJM: At California’s Folsom Lake, a stark image of state’s drought disaster
- NOAA Climate.gov: June 2021 ENSO update – neutral noodle