SF News All That Rain, and Much of California Still Remains In Moderate Drought (Except Central Coast) You've likely heard it said that we won't be out of this historic drought without several winters like the one we've had thus far. And the latest map from the U.S. Drought Monitor shows us where we're at.
SF News California Reservoir Levels Steadily Rising After All These Storms, According to State Agencies While none of the major reservoirs are at capacity – most are still less than 50% full – many are at or beating their historical averages for this point in the year.
SF News Report: California May Be In For A Dry Winter A new federal climate report shows that California could be in for a dry few months and even some drought-like conditions in some regions.
SF News California Drought Officially Over, Governor Declares via GIPHY After an exceptionally wet winter brought rains and record snowpack to the Sierra Nevada mountains, "This drought emergency is over," Governor Jerry Brown declared today, calling an official end to drought
SF News One Quarter Of California Isn't In A Drought Anymore San Francisco's newly verdant hilltops don't lie. According to a weekly national report from the US Drought Monitor issued yesterday, 12 percent of California had normal or better moisture and another 12 percent
SF News California Lifts Mandatory Water Restrictions Though Drought Continues While an El Niño rainy season skewed North and left California drier than anticipated, the State Water Resources Control Board met, as expected, to revisit our mandatory 25 percent water use reduction restrictions.
SF News Uneven El Niño Skewed North, But Water Restrictions May Ease In Parts Of CA With just weeks left in California's rainy season, El Niño has distributed uneven relief to an arid state. As a result, regulators must consider lifting state water restrictions that took effect last April
SF News Is Peak El Niño Behind Us? Potential La Niña Dry Spell Could Extend Drought After the wettest December on record and some heartening gains for reservoirs, our luck could be drying up. Yes yes, the winter season promised to us by forecasters as a Godzilla El Niño
SF News Drought Hates Christmas, Shrinks Christmas Trees Natalie Sare met her husband in 1972 while working on his Christmas Tree farm in Half Moon Bay during college. "He said he was going to fire me because I talked too much,
SF News River In Downtown San Jose Goes Totally Dry Because Drought A river used to run through downtown San Jose, and now it doesn't. As the Mercury News reports, the Guadalupe River is history, with fish and wildlife missing or dead. "I'm heartbroken," said
SF News In Drought Of Ideas, Public Utilities Commission Redoes Their 'Sexy' Water Conservation Campaign Since San Franciscans will obviously only save water if we're convinced that it's somehow sexy to do so, since last summer the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has employed a series of
