California drought: Bone dry in the south, wet in the north

California is so big “[i]t has different droughts in different places,” Jay Lund, an engineering professor at UC-Davis, told the Los Angeles Times. Rainfall in the northern Sierra Nevada, a water source for much of the state, is 180 percent of average so far in the wet season, but Southern California, which gets half of… » Read More

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