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According to the Los Angeles Times, "Drought in the 1970s spurred efforts at urban conservation and the state's Drought Emergency Water Bank came out of drought in the 1980s.". [23] A farmer welcoming rain during the 1976 drought.
Crews from Los Angeles County and the state were the first to reach the Palisades Fire that erupted January 7. CNN has reached out to the Los Angeles Fire Department for comment on the memo.
The Los Angeles area’s groundwater remained depleted even after a series of historic atmospheric rivers struck the region in 2023, a study has found. Record rainfall filled both shallow basins ...
California is entering the fourth month of what is typically the rainy season, but in the Southland, the landscape is beginning to show signs of drought. The last time Los Angeles recorded ...
From January 7 to 31, 2025, a series of 14 destructive wildfires affected the Los Angeles metropolitan area and San Diego County in California, United States. [5] The fires were exacerbated by drought conditions, low humidity, a buildup of vegetation from the previous winter, and hurricane-force Santa Ana winds, which in some places reached 100 miles per hour (160 km/h; 45 m/s).
San Luis Reservoir was at just 87% and much smaller Castaic Lake in Los Angeles County was at 92%. ... California’s drought status. California is drought-free, similar to what was monitored in ...
As California grapples with worsening climate extremes, officials warn that recent storms don't add up to an end to the drought. As California grapples with worsening climate extremes, officials ...
The drought was largely alleved in California by a persistent weather pattern that allowed rounds of storm systems to consistently hammer the state, with the snowpack rising to well above average. By January 24, 2017, not one portion of the state was in "Exceptional" drought, the highest category on the Drought Monitor.