Monday Top of the Scroll: Drought conditions have mostly disappeared in California. It’s a first in more than a decade
For the first time in more than four years, all of Northern California is free of drought or abnormally dry conditions, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor data released on Thursday. California now has its lowest amount of drought conditions since 2011. “Considering how long they were in some form of abnormal dryness or drought, it’s pretty significant,” said Lindsay Johnson, a climatologist with the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. It’s the first time all of Northern California is free of abnormally dry or drought conditions since October 2019. Parts of Siskiyou and Modoc counties that were previously a stronghold of dry conditions are now classified as normal for the first time since Nov. 19, 2019.
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