Here Are California’s Drought Conditions After Recent Winter Storms

California Drought Update 2022 vs 2023

According to the NBC San Diego website, “The rain we’ve seen lately might be letting up, but California’s historic drought is sticking around. Despite all the snow and rain in Southern California lately, all of California remains under some form of drought.”

“The most recent U.S. Drought Monitor map shows most of the state is in a ‘moderate’ drought. A year ago, the situation was direr as some regions of California were in an ‘extreme’ drought.”

“We’ve got a ton so far so we can definitely be thankful for that. As far as the drought situation going forward, we need to keep a close eye and see how our reservoirs respond to not just the rain we just received, but also a lot of the snowfall because eventually that will melt and make it down into our reservoirs so we can finally use more of it,” said Adams.