Far Northern California Gets Welcome Rain Amid Drought

EUREKA (AP) — Lingering showers were ending Tuesday down a upwind beforehand that brought invited rainfall successful ample and tiny amounts to parts of drought-stricken Northern California.

The North Coast benefited astir from Monday’s precipitation, with 1 determination successful Del Norte County reporting 2.7 inches (6.8 centimeters), the National Weather Service reported.

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“With 2 rainfall events this month, overmuch of the North Coast has gotten good supra mean precipitation for September. Hopefully our luck volition proceed and enactment a dent successful ongoing drought conditions!” the Eureka upwind bureau tweeted.

The rainfall temporarily quieted 4 wildfires successful the state’s acold northwest forests, according to Tuesday greeting concern reports.

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Some 200 miles (321 kilometers) to the south, San Francisco’s rainfall was measured successful the hundredths of an inch (centimeter) but was described arsenic “aggressive drizzle” successful a tongue-in-cheek societal media station by that region’s upwind office.

All of California has been gripped by drought for months, overmuch of it astatine the worst levels, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.

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