Blog: How’s California’s water year developing?
… California’s 2024 Water Year could still be quite dry and/or bring floods, but it seems unlikely to become among California’s wettest years, if only because the water year’s first months have been dry. Today, the Northern Sierra precipitation index is about 66% of average for this time of year. San Joaquin and Tulare basin precipitation indices are at 46% and 40% of average, respectively. … Given the precipitation so far, 2024 is highly likely to be wetter than the very driest years of record, but is also highly unlikely to be among the very wettest years in the past 100 years or so.