After weeks of intense rain and flooding, most of California’s reservoirs are holding extra water than normal for this time of yr, however groundwater continues to be not replenished
Environment
20 January 2023
The Nicasio Reservoir in California at 100 per cent capability after a sequence of atmospheric river occasions in January 2023 Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
California lastly has a dry forecast after three weeks of intense rain introduced flooding and catastrophe declarations throughout a lot of the state. All that water is the results of 9 “atmospheric rivers” – heat, water-heavy air drawn up from the tropics – and has taken the sting off a historic drought. But California continues to be grappling with the way to handle the increasingly unstable swings between moist and dry years predicted below local weather change. …