How much rain does California need to get out of drought?
The torrential rainfall across much of central and northern California may have helped to pull a tiny piece of the state out of drought. Data from the U.S. Drought Monitor shows that while 97.93 percent of California is experiencing some degree of drought, the remaining 2.07 percent is only classified as “abnormally dry.” … However, a lot more rain would be needed to drag California out of its decades-long megadrought, as short-term fluctuations in how dry an area is at a given time is drastically different to the long-term trend of dryness across the state.
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