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Drought worsened in 1988 as much of the United States also suffered from severe drought. In California, the six-year drought ended in late 1992 as a significant El Niño event in the Pacific Ocean (and the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in June 1991) most likely caused unusual persistent heavy rains. [26]
In mid-May 2014, the US Drought Monitor analysis showed that 100% of California was already under "Severe Drought" or a higher level. [15] The 2014 drought is considered the worst in 1,200 years. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ 18 ] As California received additional rainfall in December 2014 , this was not expected to end California's drought, and trees were ...
California is the most populous state and largest agricultural producer in the United States, and as such, drought in California can have a severe economic as well as environmental impact. The historical and ongoing droughts in California are caused by lack of rainfall (or snowfall), higher average temperatures , and drier air masses in the ...
Decades of drought in California were followed by extremely heavy rainfall for two years in 2022 and 2023, but that then flipped again to very dry conditions in the autumn and winter of 2024 ...
California was ravaged by the state’s driest three years on record from 2020-22. Read more: State Water Project supplies could fall up to 23% within 20 years due to climate change
Drought worsened in 1988–1989, as much of the United States also suffered from severe drought. In California, the five-year drought ended in late 1991 as a result of unusual persistent heavy rains, most likely caused by a significant El Niño event in the Pacific Ocean and the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in June 1991. [51]
More than 72,000 people are living in drought conditions in California, the U.S. Drought Monitor said.
In February 2022, researchers described the drought in the southwest of the US, including California, in the years 2000–2021 as the most severe in 1,200 years, "which is as far back as the data goes." Without climate change, the drought was probably finished already in 2005.