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By the end of 2016, 30% of California had emerged from the drought, mainly in the northern half of the state, while 40% of the state remained in the extreme or exceptional drought levels. [33] Heavy rains in January 2017 were expected to have a significant benefit to the state's northern water reserves, despite widespread power outages and ...
[37] [38] The flooding occurred at the end of one of California's worst droughts on record, and much of the state was unprepared to handle the huge volume of rain and snow. The precipitation helped to refill surface water supplies, including many major lakes and reservoirs, but had limited impact on groundwater reserves. [39]
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 at risk due to weakened roots.
The rain is expected to snap a record, or near-record, streak of dry weather for Southern California. Most areas of the region have received less than 5% of the average accumulated rainfall for ...
A preview of the worst-case scenario following this weekend’s rainfall could be seen in the Palisades two weeks ago, when an oceanview home that survived the wildfire was literally split in half ...
Experts with the University of California at Los Angeles recorded 12 inches of rain in 24 hours on Monday, marking a 1-in-1,000-year rainfall event for the area, according to the UCLA Institute of ...
Because of the cold California Current from the North Pacific Ocean and the fact that the storms tend to "steer" west, California has only been hit with three tropical storms in recorded history, a storm which came ashore in 1939 and dumped heavy rainfall on the Los Angeles area and interior deserts. The remnants of tropical systems will affect ...
A deluge of rainfall from what city officials are calling a "thousand-year storm" forced hundreds of rescues, flooded an untold number of homes and businesses and caused millions of dollars in ...