It took years to get into this hot, dry mess — it could take years to get out of it.
The Golden Gate Bridge is seen through heavy rain on January 4th, 2023, in Sausalito, California.A deluge of storms is dumping serious amounts of rain across notoriously dry California. Even so, this week’s downpours are still nowhere near enough to pull the state out of its intense years-long drought.
A bomb cyclone is working its way across the state today, flooding homes and roads and knocking out power for hundreds of thousands of residents. Officialsit could be the worst storm to crash into California in years — even though it’s just one in a series of storms to pass through in the span of a couple weeks.for the state on record.
“We need this stuff to happen this month, February, March, April — every month to really build up the snowpack, fill up those [water] reservoirs and knock down those [precipitation] deficits,” says Richard Heim a meteorologist with the National Centers for Environmental Information. “Unfortunately, a lot of it is coming too fast, too heavy.”called the “
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