California drought News
‘This Is The Big One.’ Early Fires Predicted Amid Historic Drought
Sarah Brunner opened the irrigation spigots on her farm in March, three months early. The rain should have still been falling in California. Now that summer is taking hold, she and her husband are ...
Heavy California Rains Ironically Set Stage for Robust Fire Season
Forest fires are picking up once again in California. The cause this time: rain and snow. Really, rain and snow? OK, perhaps not exclusively, but yes, as counterintuitive as it would seem, the weeks ...
La Niña May Not Address California Drought
El Nino couldn't bail California out of an unprecedented drought. Don't count on La Nina to do any better. California, in its fifth year of drought, gets most of its water from November to March. The ...
El Niño Has Done Little to Counter California’s Historic Drought
Ed Heinlein surveys the steep mountainside that has repeatedly unleashed tons of mud into the backyard of his Southern California home since a 2014 wildfire and still hopes the drought-stricken state ...
California Welcomes El Niño-Driven Rain and Snow
Egged on by El Nino, rain is falling across California. While it's welcome, wanted and setting records, it still isn't enough to bust the drought. That doesn't mean the mood is dour because after ...
Drought’s Economic Damage Went Global in August: Aon Benfield
Severe drought in the western U.S. caused economic losses in August of at least $3 billion, mostly from agricultural damage in California, Aon Benfield's Impact Forecasting said in a new report. ...
Western U.S. Drought Pressures Expected to Intensify
Drought pressures will increase in California and western areas of the United States this spring even as the dry season begins, the government's Climate Prediction Center said on Thursday. "Periods ...
California Moving Forward with $7.2B Drought Mitigation Bond
Governor Jerry Brown and California Democratic lawmakers reached tentative agreement on a $7.2 billion bond measure for water storage and delivery to drought- stricken cities and farms. The ...