Sunday, November 03, 2019

Precipitation (click here) in California is highly variable year-to-year and understanding this variability is critical to water resource management and policy....

The figure to the left is from the article with the link above. The figure clearly shows two-thirds of California has undergone a change in precipitation from 1951 to 1999. That is nearly fifty years. The change is not a good change. The rainfall in California over the fifty years before the severity of the climate crisis became apparent decreases up to 100 percent. That means Southern California has no rainfall while northern California saw rainfall decrease by 80 percent.  The area that is seeing 80 percent less precipitation is where the Diablo winds have been working on the moisture content and making the state dry. The rainfall has to be put back and it will not happen naturally.