SF News Saturday Links: California Has Zero Droughts For the First Time in 25 Years Two protestors were detained and two pepper sprayed Friday afternoon outside ICE's field office in SF; Guy Fieri is on the mend from “exploding” his leg muscle; and the state of California is drought-free for the first time since 2000.
SF News California Drought Conditions Plummet from 99% to Under 9% Statewide The U.S. Drought Monitor map shows that the only areas remaining in drought are in the far north and southeast of the state, though surrounding areas have abnormal dryness.
SF News Gov. Newsom Revoked Majority of Drought Emergency Measures Friday, But Stopped Short of Declaring End of Drought After this winter's storms, about 65% of California is out of drought conditions — compared to almost 100% of the state under some form of drought or dry conditions about three months ago.
SF News Newsom Threatens Mandatory Water Restrictions Across California If We Don’t Lay Off the Water Usage Gavin Newsom says that if local water agencies don’t crack down harder on water usage, he’s going to start levying mandatory water restrictions all over the state.
SF News This May Be the Driest Start to a New Year Ever Recorded in San Francisco Between January 1 and February 26, just 0.65 inches of rain have fallen in San Francisco — about 8% of the usual average rainfall observed during the same period. If the city doesn't receive any rain by Monday, it will best the 1852 record for the driest January-February stretch ever recorded in SF.
SF News Northern California Might Not See a Drop of Rain or Single Snowflake Until Mid-February According to climate scientist Daniel Swain, Northern California could see extremely dry conditions — "with zero rain or snow in most spots" — well into the middle of February, a dry spell that will probably be observed throughout California and elsewhere along the West Coast.
SF News Healdsburg Declares 'Severe Drought,' Bans Use of Sprinklers and Drip Irrigation Systems Officials of the Wine Country city declared Friday that because of "severe drought" conditions, all of its over 12,000 residents must reduce their water usage immediately — specifically announcing a ban on using automatic sprinklers and irrigation systems.
SF News This Infographic From the National Weather Service Shows Just How Bad the Bay Area Drought Is A picture is worth a thousand words. And pictures that include statistics could fill an entire novel.
SF News Marin Becomes First Bay Area County to Announce Drought Water-Use Restrictions We're in another drought, and likely within the next month or two we will be hearing about water-use rules and neighbors tattling on neighbors for washing their cars all over the Bay Area. But right now, the only county making mandatory restrictions official is Marin County.
SF News Climate Change Is Setting Us Up for a Terrible Wildfire Season; It's Also Killing Off Rare California Elk So far in 2021, parts of the North Bay near Santa Rosa are without nearly 20 inches of normal yearly rainfall, leading to concerns of another hellacious wildfire season on the horizon. Those same kinds of drought conditions, too, are linked to the deaths of over 150 tule elk.
SF News Once Again, Lake Oroville and Other Reservoirs Are at Drought Emergency Levels We're likely headed for another summer of dried-up lawns, fires, and water restrictions if Mother Nature continues to withhold the rain and snow that we need to make up for a super-dry November, December, and February.
SF News The Severity Of California's Drought Captured In Disturbing New Photos As California's "once in a generation" drought continues, our reservoir water and groundwater reserves are at record lows. Over the last few months, Getty photographer Justin Sullivan has visited
SF News Let's Talk About The California Drought, Baby, Today On Twitter At 11 AM California is currently in "a once in a generation type" drought, which we've been telling you about all year (read previous coverage here). Today (August 6) at 11 a.
