[OldDeckHand]

Does anyone know how much this latest deluge has done to ease the drought in California? I know it’s been a long drought - some three years or more - but a HUGE amount of rain has fallen in the last week.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I am sure we will start hearing about that before too long.

I'll watch as I am sure others will also.

[NormsRevenge]

It’s a lot better than it was a week ago but we still got a ways to go..

Drought Monitor
http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Much data here:

S N O W - P R E C I P I T A T I O N U P D A T E

Based on Mountain Data from NRCS SNOTEL Sites As of FRIDAY: JANUARY 22 , 2010

[EggsAckley]

I heard that the Sierra snowpack is at 96% of normal. That’s very good news.

[luckystarmom]

Here’s what the Mercury News says about drought levels:

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_14242470?source=most_viewed

It looks like N. California still needs more rain.

They are saying 2 or 3 more weeks of rain are needed.

[pollywog]

They will say we are still in a drought! They are nuts!We have had at LEAST 10 inches here probably more!It has rained steadily all day here....

[calex59]

The drought was mostly in the minds of politicians wishing to impose restrictive legislation on CA. We were not in the big a drought, in fact it should never have been called a drought. The only drought we have had in CA was back in the late 70s/early 80s and it was a real drought at that time but this so called drought didn't even come close to that one.

We were at about 80% of normal this year before these storms hit and we should be in good shape now. We also have some more storms coming in starting Monday.

All CA has to do is build desalinization plants and use that water for the farmers mainly. The pols won't do that of course because it makes sense and they couldn't scream drought and pass obnoxious legislation every time our rain/snow fall goes between 85 and 95 percent of normal