Even after nearly two months of wet weather along the West Coast, California has still not fully escaped its years-long drought, weather and climate experts with the state’s Department of Water Resources said.
Even after nearly two months of wet weather along the West Coast, California has still not fully escaped its years-long drought, weather and climate experts with the state's Department of Water Resources said this week.
State Climatologist Michael Anderson said Wednesday that California has seen"pretty fantastic" drought-busting weather patterns so far in 2023, which have also helped saturate the state's previously arid groundwater basins. As for a concrete answer on whether the drought is over, Anderson offered an answer that boiled down to"no, but kind of."
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