SF News Here's What The State Wants You To Do To Conserve Water, And Here's What You Actually Should Do Debates are starting to rage across social media, and among actual live humans at cocktail and dinner parties, about how poorly or adequately California has been addressing our drought catastrophe particularly after that
SF News Day Around The Bay: Water Usage Rules To Get Stepped Up In April There's a $3,000 reward in the case of an escaped suspected child molester who ran off last Friday in San Jose. [CBS 5] As everyone has said, with this drought and the
SF News California Has One Year Of Water Left A stark Op-Ed in the LA Times lays out the case for why water rationing needs to start, statewide, basically now. Also, the state has to lay out better long-term water strategies, right
SF News El Niño Finally Arrives; Will Not Save California, Rain-Wise Remember that "weak" El Niño that was supposed to develop this winter? Well, it's March, and it just got here. As predicted back in October, this season's ocean warming was not on track
SF News Report: Droughts Likely To Continue In California, Maybe Forever A new report by some Stanford climatologists paints a dismal picture for California's future, suggesting that our current drought is absolutely tied to human-caused climate warming, and that the frequency of these droughts
SF News Weather Report: Big Rain Finally Returns There's a decent-sized storm system moving into the Bay Area Thursday and Friday, and for this we should all be extremely grateful. Your rain dances have worked. It is time, once again, to
Arts & Entertainment There's Now A Petition To Stop The Giant Slip-N-Slide From Coming Back To California, For Drought Reasons Yep, as predicted, some concerned citizens have lined up to sign a petition to prevent the Utah-based startup Slide the City from bringing its 1,000-foot Slip-n-Slide to multiple California cities this summer
SF News Depressing Graph Shows How Little Rain There's Been Each January For 15 Years January will be over on Saturday, and there isn't even a speck of rain in the forecast before then, which will mean that this January 0.00 inches fell in San Francisco. This
SF News Extra Warm Weather And Extra High Tides Arriving This Week Does everyone remember last January when it didn't rain at all and half the month was sunny and 70 degrees? Yeah, well, we're having a repeat of that pattern which is terrible news
SF News This Is Actually The Wettest December Ever It's only the 18th day of the month, and San Francisco has already had 424 percent of our normal rainfall for December, including this week's downpours. El Niño, anyone? As CBS 5 reports,
SF News This Rain Is Messing Up Our Salmon Migration Good for the fishes? Not these ones. As KPIX 5 reports, our endangered salmon population in the Sacramento River, already troubled by years of drought, is completely confused by the rain. Fish near
SF News How Much More Rain Would California Need To End The Drought? This spate of December rainfall we've been having is good news, obviously, for California's drought, but everyone should understand just how much more rain we would need to see an end of the
SF News Tuesday Night Rainstorm Brings Lightning Strikes, Floods, Power Outages As rain continues to fall across the Bay Area, Wednesday morning has brought a flood advisory, reports of mudslides in Los Gatos, major public transit delays including a flooded Van Ness Station, reports
SF News The Flavor Of SF's Tap Water Will Be Changing, Slightly We've been lulled into thinking this past year that San Francisco's precious, Sierra Nevada-borne water supply at Hetch Hetchy was under no threat of depleting despite the dought-related suffering that's happening all across
SF News California On Track For Hottest Year On Record We all know it's been a warm, dry year. And if that surprise beach day a week ago, in November, weren't yet another clue, new data from the National Climatic Data Center shows
SF News This El Niño Is Coming In Weak Sorry, everyone. Way back in March we started talking about the likely event of an El Niño winter season as Pacific ocean temperatures were on the rise. At one point, climatologists were saying
SF News Weather Report: Rain Followed By Indian Summer Your rain dances have finally done some good. A little good, anyway. Here in San Francisco we got six-tenths of an inch of rain last night, which was more than most of the
SF News Study: Megadroughts Of A Decade Or More Headed To The Southwest Even though the Bay Area and the Pacific Northwest might be sitting pretty in the next five decades or so of climate change, the same won't be true of the U.S. Southwest,
SF News Pleasant Side Effect of Napa Quake: Surprise Water Showing Up Everywhere As is common in the aftermath of earthquakes, though perhaps not widely known, new fissures in the earth can cause groundwater to come bubbling up in new places, and that's been happening all
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 Shasta Lake and Lake
SF News Another Yosemite Wildfire, The Junction Fire, Grows To 1,200 Acres This fire season is proving, predictably, to be a doozy. Yet another wildfire has grown out of control in Madera County near the southern entrance to Yosemite National Park and the town of
SF News Forecasters Less Optimistic About El Niño This Winter Climate scientists are being less bullish this week about the possibility of winter bringing a severe El Niño rainy season, though it remains a possibility. Federal forecasts are now calling for a weak
SF News The Current California Drought, Illustrated Are you more of a visual learner? Here's a dramatic graphic showing just how short on water the state of California is compared to just last week, and last year. That dark maroon
SF News You Will Now Be Fined $500 If You're Caught Hosing Your Driveway As we warned you earlier it would, the California Water Resources Control Board voted Tuesday to impose mandatory water-usage restrictions that come with $500 fines for non-compliance. Cue every tattle-tale neighbor in the
SF News State Water Usage Rules To Cause Feces Crisis On S.F. Streets? Will your walk to work this summer become like a fun video game in which you have to side-step and hop over piles of poop and puddles of urine? The city of S.
