After two weeks of extreme rainfall across California, the severe drought that has gripped most of the state in recent months is beginning to ease. But it will need more than a few weeks of rain ...

Extreme drought was nearly wiped out in California due in large part to a series of winter storms that drenched the state and improved its vital snowpack in the Sierra Nevada Mountains ...

The map also shows a staggering difference in comparison to the start of 2024, when about 96% of California was under no drought, and abnormal dryness impacted just a fraction of Siskiyou County ...

Move the slider on the map below to see how since the end of September our wet winter has all but erased the drought. Mother Nature has soaked California, sending bomb cyclones and back-to-back ...

Data shared by the U.S. Drought Monitor Map shows a startling difference in California's drought classifications compared to last year and 2021. California has battled a deluge of storms the past ...

California continues to create distance from its “historic drought-stricken” label with record-level snowfall, rain and filling reservoirs. More than 63% of the state is drought-free ...

For the first time in more than two years, much of the southwest portion of California is free of both drought and “abnormally dry” conditions. According to the U.S. Drought Monitor ...

The update showed 0.07% of California still has “moderate drought,” down from 0.22% on Sept. 5. A map shows drought conditions across California’s 58 counties. The state is nearly 100% ...

However, drought maps also reported parts Southern California are in extreme drought, boosting fire risk this spring. That’s after Southern California was already devastated by wildfires in winter.

It’s been less than six months, but California’s drought conditions have all but disappeared. And given all of the wild weather we’ve experienced this winter, it’s been easy to overlook ...