“There’s sort of this myth of the miracle March in California, which refers to a couple of specific years in which the winter was extremely dry and then March came along and there was just this unceasing deluge for a few weeks in a row,” Dr.
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A series of storms dumped a considerable amount of snow in late December, raising hopes that this winter might proceed normally.
The lack of snow and rain in February comes after a January that was also drier than average, and a record dry autumn for much of Northern California. “It was, in a lot of places, a completely dry month, which is truly extraordinary.” The rains that come in February are part of a seasonal pattern that nourishes plants, replenishes reservoirs and, in the Sierra Nevada mountains, restores the snowpack that provides up to 30 percent of the state’s drinking water.īut this February “was not just merely a below average month,” Dr. 1 and April 30, with half of the state’s total precipitation falling during December, January and February. Ordinarily, 90 percent of California’s rain falls during the seven-month period between Oct. “It was the driest February on record,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles. February in California was so dry that it is raising concerns that the state, which, according to the National Drought Mitigation Center, only fully emerged from drought last March, may be headed for another one. Not a drop of rain fell in downtown San Francisco this February. 1 to March 1, 2020, are shown relative to average precipitation totals for the same period between 19.
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