In a single week, the portions of the state classified as experiencing extreme drought in California fell from 27.1% to 0.32%.
found that the past 22 years have been the driest period in the Southwest in the last 1,200 years.
As temperatures continue to rise thanks to humankind's burning of fossil fuels, one effect, called the Clausius-Clapeyron relationship, is that there is 7% more moisture in the atmosphere per every degree Celsius of warming. That means extreme downpours like those in California in recent days can become more likely when conditions are right.
For now, however, the precipitation picture is much brighter than it was even a week ago. Water levels in depleted state reservoirs have been rising, and California’s snow pack as of Wednesday While the risks of flash flooding remain high, more rain and snow is in the forecast for the coming week.
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