At this time last year, all of California was in a drought, but according to the latest drought monitor, just over a third of the state remains in some level of drought.
The latest drought monitor map released Thursday shows all but 11% of San Diego County remains in some form of drought, which is the same as last week. But that's significantly down from 3 months ago when all of San Diego County was in some form of drought.
A portion of San Diego County remains abnormally dry, which means the area shows dryness but is recovering from drought. And a small sliver in the northwest corner of the county was still under moderate drought but it's showing improvement. “San Diego is kind of in a moderate category there and it has since come down," Adam Roser with the National Weather Service said."So out of the drought in the San Diego area. And really, you know, this means that we've received enough precipitation across the San Diego metro area to kind of get out of that water deficit, that rain deficit."Sign up for NBC San Diego newsletters.THe U.S. Drought Monitor for March 23, 2023, showed most of California out of drought .
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