How Did Sunday’s Storm Affect California’s Drought?

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – What did Sunday’s grounds rainfall mean for California’s drought?

UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences Professor Jay Lund says we person a agelong mode to spell to marque up for years of drought.

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The watersheds person been very, precise adust aft 2 years of drought. We’re inactive successful a drought, but this large immense tempest that we had this past play has wetted soils passim the state,” helium said. “And arsenic you’ve conscionable seen it’s raised the levels successful the reservoirs. The levels person been mostly going down for the past 2 years and present they’re starting to marque their mode backmost up but we person a agelong mode to go.”

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Sunday’s tempest dropped 5.44 inches, the equivalent of 20 percent of rainfall and snowfall that falls successful an mean twelvemonth successful our region. Downtown Sacramento acceptable its all-time 24-hour rainfall full record.

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Sacramento Executive Airport besides bushed its erstwhile all-time grounds of 3.77” acceptable successful 1962 with a full of 5.41” connected Sunday.

Adrienne Moore