No drought in Mendocino County, but task force keeping watch
Mendocino County is not in a drought. That was the message Tuesday, May 19, from county Department of Transportation staff, who delivered the first formal drought briefing since the county adopted its Drought Resilience Plan on May 20, 2025 — nearly a year ago to the day. … Jeanine Jones, interstate resources manager for the California Department of Water Resources, gave the statewide picture and a warning about the El Niño headlines now circulating. A strong El Niño does not reliably mean a wet California winter, she said. She pointed to water year 2016, when one of the strongest El Niño events on record fell in the fifth year of the 2012-2017 drought.
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