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Thursday, January 12, 2017
The drought is over in northern California after up to 20 inches of rain and 12 feet of snow
Over the past week, storm after storm has pummeled central and northern California, denting if not erasing a multi-year drought. The Federal government’s U.S. Drought Monitor
published Thursday morning declared the northern third of the state is
now entirely drought-free. Reservoirs are filled and streams are flush
with water – at or near record flows. “With more than a foot of
precipitation falling on the Sierra Nevada (locally 20.7 inches at
Strawberry Valley, CA), most major reservoirs were at or above its Jan.
10 historical average,” the Drought Monitor reported. The amount
of rain and snow so far this year in unsurpassed in historical records
in the Northern Sierra, San Joaquin, and Tulare basins. The Northern
Sierra tallied 26 percent of its annual precipitation in the first 10
days of January alone...more
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