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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]
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 ]
The drought is largely driven by temperature, which increases the rate of evaporation, with some contribution from the lack of precipitation. The several wet years since 2000 were not sufficient to end the drought. Researchers calculated that without climate change-induced evaporation, the precipitation in 2005 would have broken the drought.
A dry start to the water year in California could ignite drought conditions in a matter of months, climate experts warn. ... No one has lived in a drought area in California since November, a ...
Gov. Newsom asked Californians to reduce their water usage by 15% last year. Most places are nowhere near that mark.
In the wake of a biblical blizzard that unloaded nearly 100 inches of snow on California, AccuWeather is making a major announcement: California will be free of widespread drought through at least ...
Drought worsened in 1988–1989, as much of the United States also suffered from severe drought. In California, the five-year drought ended in late 1991 as a result of unusual persistent heavy rains, most likely caused by a significant El Niño event in the Pacific Ocean and the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in June 1991. [51]
The impact of climate change on precipitation in California can lead to the occurrence of severe drought. [42] During droughts in California, farmers leave land fallow. In 2014 drought season, 430,000 acres of farmland were left to fallow. [43] Farmers anticipate they will fallow a similar number of acres of farmland in 2022. [44]