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Many millions of California trees died from the drought – approximately 102 million, including 62 million in 2016 alone. [32] By the end of 2016, 30% of California had emerged from the drought, mainly in the northern half of the state, while 40% of the state remained in the extreme or exceptional drought levels. [33]
"We're now in a situation in California where there's never really enough water anymore to do all of the things that everyone wants, and to declare the drought over, or the emergency over, I think ...
A dry start to the water year in California could ignite drought conditions in a matter of months, climate experts warn. The state is undergoing its worst start to a water year in a decade ...
Additionally, roughly 1 in 10 people in the United States live in California, meaning that when the state faces a harsh drought, millions of people have to cope with the direct implications.. At ...
[32] A study published in 2016 found that the net effect of climate change has made agricultural droughts less likely, with the authors stating that "Our results indicate that the current severe impacts of drought on California's agricultural sector, its forests, and other plant ecosystems have not been substantially caused by long-term climate ...
In a single week, extreme drought conditions that had gripped nearly one-third of California have been downgraded nearly everywhere. California storms erase extreme drought from nearly all of ...
Progression of the drought from December 2013 to July 2014. The 2011–2017 California drought persisted from December 2011 to March 2017 [1] and consisted of the driest period in California's recorded history, late 2011 through 2014. [2] The drought wiped out 102 million trees from 2011 to 2016, 62 million of those during 2016 alone. [3]
Despite record-setting rainfall that helped pull the last major section of California out of a three-year drought, water officials say Tropical Storm Hilary didn't have a major effect on the state ...