Water whiplash: See how California’s drought disappeared in a few months

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U.S. Drought Monitor maps tracked the driest and wettest weeks

California has been on an amazing roller coaster of drought and floods recently.

The extreme swings have been documented each week in color-coded maps issued by the U.S. Drought Monitor, a weekly report by the NOAA, the USDA and the University of Nebraska. One of the more alarming symbols came at Lake Oroville, California’s second largest reservoir, where on Aug. 5, 2021, water levels fell so low — to just 24% full — that the power plant had to be shut down for the first time since it opened in 1967.

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