California has been having a bit of a showery time of year of late , so much so that some mass are ask if we ’re finally coming to the closing of its three - year long drought . The answer is almost certainly not . Here ’s the numbers game on how much H2O California would need to see the drouth ’s end — and , fair admonition , it ’s a lot .
Top image : Folsom reservoir , California Department of Water Resources / viaJPL
NOAA feed two projectionson how much rainwater we would need to see between now and September to terminate the drought , the first to see how much pelting it would take to put California within the bottom 20 % mountain chain of average cumulate precipitation and the 2nd to see how much it would take to pull it up to the exact halfway point .
In both cases , the average rain would need to transcend the norm by over 200 % . Or , to put it another way , California would need to see at least 38 inch of pelting or snow between last month and the close of September . And the most it ’s ever seen in that time period is just under 30 .
But , while the drought does n’t appear to be going anywhere , the news is n’t all unfit . While the National Weather Service ’s late projections show that the droughtwon’t be incur salutary ( and may even intensify ) this wintertime , at least thesouthern portion of the state of matter may bulge out to see succor by this spring . The drought wo n’t be over , of course , but it may be slightly less severe .
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