By Ricardo Roura
Half of California is under abnormal drought conditionsaccording to the report published this Thursday, May 14, by the United States Drought Show screen.
According to data collected this Tuesday, May 12, Specialists considered that conditions continue to spread throughout Californiauntil registering some areas with a moderate drought level, in the north and southeast of the state.
The map published in the report shows that Northern and central California counties are classified as “abnormally dry” or in “moderate drought.”which represent the first two levels of the drought scale.
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No areas are registered in Los Angeles, Orange and Santa Barbara counties. considered within drought levels, although the same does not happen in San Bernardino and Riverside counties, where some areas can already be found under “abnormal dryness.”
The information update was assembled with new information from the National Integrated Drought Information System, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which reported that snowpack, the largest non-synthetic reservoir in the West, has already disappeared in many areas.
are being produced important hydrological impacts due to drought (low water supply), which will continue through the summer in much of the west of the country.
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Furthermore, the western region continues to suffer from a prolonged drought, and dry conditions are expected to worsen and their effects to be accentuated.
According to the National Integrated Drought Knowledge Machine (NIDIS), Approximately 51.41% of California is currently in an “abnormal dry” situation.while 8.56% of the state is under the classification of “moderate drought.”
Only in January 2026all of California was reported to be free of any category of drought for the first time in 25 years.
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During the first months of 2023, intense storms and snowfall that impacted the Golden State helped mitigate the drought that severely affected California for years.
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