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 Bay Area Remains In a Drought Following Storms, Likely Will Not Reach Seasonal Average for Rainfall Unless the region gets walloped by a parade of crazy rainstorms in the next month or two, Northern California isn't likely to make up for the deficit of precipitation that our dry November, December and early January left us with.
SF News Warm, Spring-Like Weekend Ahead as Bay Area Weatherman Warns of Potential January Red Flag Warnings Rain over the first week of the new year has given way to a dry spell with unseasonably warm temps — a false early spring akin to something we saw in the Bay Area in the depths of the drought in 2014.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Temple Being Built From Trees Killed In Drought You’ll notice this year’s Burning Man Temple looks a lot different than previous years’ laser cut jigsaw designs of David Best. Best has handed off the task to his previous lead
SF News Video: Cool NASA Video Shows Before And After Images Of California's Drought We got through a historic drought and have come out the other side after the atmospheric rivers and steady rains of this past winter in California. Especially in Northern California and around the
SF News California Drought Virtually Over After Five Years Though a few parts of Southern California remain in a state of "moderate" or "severe" drought, the U.S. Drought Monitor reported Thursday that the vast majority of the state has now emerged
SF News Seven Feet Of Snow Falls In The Sierra, With More On Its Way After years of mostly disappointing winter snowfall totals in and around Lake Tahoe, the winter of 2017 is looking to be a sweet one for local skiers and snowboarders some of whom may
SF News Hillsborough Millionaires Sue Town Over Fines To Promote Water Conservation All is not well in Hillsborough, a suburb of 11,500 people west of San Mateo that's among the nation's wealthiest towns. There, nine unhappy residents are suing the municipality to recoup fines
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 Drought Future Unclear As Climatologists Say La Niña Might Not Happen A cooling of ocean temperatures that often comes in the aftermath of an El Niño season, known as La Niña, may not be taking shape as forecasters were predicting in recent months. A
SF News Drunk Men Who Slashed Inflatable Dam, Wasting 50M Gallons Of Water, Fined Three men who damaged an inflatable dam on Alameda Creek in May of last year, wasting just shy of 50 million gallons of water in the process, will be forced to pay a
SF News Design District Business Denies Intentionally Spraying Sleeping Homeless With Sprinklers A spokesperson for an auction house located in San Francisco's Design District issued a statement denying that the company intentionally sprays sleeping homeless with water from a rooftop sprinkler in an attempt to
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 Despite Wet Winter, Dead Trees Mean A Potentially Terrible Wildfire Season It looks like El Nino rains are coming up short in yet another way for California in 2016 as wildfire-fighters are looking at a potential disaster that's been created by millions of dead
SF News Video: Drone Shows Devastation Of Bark Beetles On Drought-Stricken Yosemite Forest Bark beetles. They are not a new phenomenon for California's pine forests, however our ongoing drought, now in its fourth or fifth year depending on who you ask, has stressed the trees to
SF News Weather Report: Weekend Rain Expected To Wash Away Your Dreams Of Summer Yesterday's taste of summer sure was sweet, wasn't it? Well, hopefully you made the best of it, because clouds are expected to roll in this weekend and drizzle on your personal parade. The
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 Weather Report: The Last Dumping Of Rain For A While It may be unwise to call it over, but from the looks of it, today's bout of (at times very heavy!) rain in San Francisco will be the last we'll see of the
SF News It's About To Get Wet: Double The Average Monthly Rainfall Predicted In Next 10 Days Batten down those hatches, because it's about to get seriously wet around here (again). It turns out that the forthcoming storm is going to be significantly larger than first predicted. How much larger?
SF News Weather Report: El Niño Maybe Not Quite Finished With Us Yet After a wet January and wet early February, the Bay Area settled into a familiar early spring that often graces us in February, with beach days aplenty and some really pretty sunsets along
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 Weather Report: Rain Returning Momentarily Man, those sunny days were nice, weren't they? Well, hopefully you got some sun in, because rain is expected today, tomorrow, and Friday. You can likely see the clouds from your desk right
SF News Thanks, El Niño: Sierra Snowpack Hits Five-Year High Following years of dismal winter dustings for the Sierra Nevada Mountains, this season's El Niño has lifted snowpack to 115 percent of normal (the historical average for a particular date) according to the
SF News Poster Lake Of The Drought, Lake Oroville, Gains 17 Feet Of Water In 10 Days The drought-related news has been mostly good now that rain has finally come. And while we caution anyone from assuming the drought will actually end, and knowing that this El Nino will likely
SF News El Niño Rain Driving Ants Indoors (Again) Like a lot of San Franciscans, ants are fickle and particular. They prefer a temperate day. They need water, but not too much, and prefer easy access to good food and they will
