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Even with the Santa Clarita rain at the beginning of the month, northern Los Angeles County is not out of the dry woods yet since drought conditions are likely to continue through February, according to the National Weather Service.
“We’ve got some temporary relief from the drought,” said Lisa Phillips, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Los Angeles bureau. “For at least the next month, things will improve. We’ve got another storm we’re looking at coming into the area soon.”
Rainfall throughout January brought the Santa Clarita Valley, and much of northern Los Angeles County, out of the extreme or severe drought categories and into the “abnormally dry” category.
“It’s technically not considered a drought,” Phillips said, but cautioned that the moniker wasn’t a foolproof metric. “It’s more to signify we’re coming out of a drought.”
Another heavy storm is expected to hit the Santa Clarita Valley around February 14, she said. But even that extra water might not be enough to fill reservoirs struck by the drought.
Southern California has been in a state of drought for six years, meaning even as some freshwater sources like Castaic Lake are reaching capacity, some reservoirs used for California’s fresh water supply are not at capacity.
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What exactly defines a “drought”? This article implies that if all of the reservoirs are not at capacity, we are in a drought. That’s like saying, if my bank account isn’t full, I must be broke.
“Temporarily” lol demacrats view, vote republican people and save us
Will, done your taxes yet?
Republicans are the ones responsible for the dilemma we’re in. This is all due to climate change. But republicans don’t believe in scientific proof.
Now that we have a democratic House and will soon have a democratic Senate and president, maybe we can start to undo the mess Trump and his supporters have made.
All the money that the Democrats have stolen to combat climate change has gone to other programs. In the last 30 years the population of California has doubled, but there have been no new water storage facilities built. Those facilities would bank our water instead of loosing it.
Warren, Let me help you out here with your information regarding water storage facilities built in the last 30 years.
See: Semitropic Water Bank. Date of completion- early 1990’s.
See: Arvin Edison Water Bank. Date of completion- 1995.
See: Diamond Valley Lake- Southern California’s largest reservoir. Date of completion- March 2000.
See: Kern Water Bank. Date of completion- 2004.
See: Los Vaqueros Reservoir. Date of completion- 1998 with an expansion project completed- 2012.
See: Olivehain Dam. Date of completion- 2013
See: San Vicente Dam. Date of completion 2014.