The California Drought Is Washed Away -- March 2, 2019

The California drought washed away. From the Pasadena Star-News. Worth archiving. The graphics are incredible.

An atmospheric river that formed over the Pacific Ocean in early 2017, sending storm after storm after storm toward the West Coast, officially ended the drought. 

The winter of 2017-18, however, was unusually dry, and drought conditions spread back over California throughout 2018. They weren’t as severe as they’d been in 2016 — this time, none of the state entered that “exceptional” drought category.

Once again, 2019 has been rainier than average thanks to back-to-back storms throughout January and February. The Drought Monitor shows that as of Feb. 19, less than 4 percent of the state is in drought. The 29 percent of the state that’s still abnormally dry includes most of Orange, San Diego and Imperial counties and parts of Riverside, San Bernardino and Los Angeles counties.

And it's still raining. 

It Never Rains In Southern California, Albert Hammond