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OnlinePoker

(5,719 posts) Thu Mar 21, 2019, 10:46 AM Mar 2019

And less than 17% is now considered abnormally dry. The PNW has been getting dryer over the last month or so, though, which is normal in an El Nino year.

https://www.drought.gov/drought/data-maps-tools/current-conditions

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Less than 5% of U.S. now in some form of drought (Original Post) OnlinePoker Mar 2019 OP

CA is lucky to be out of that beyond-exceptional drought. Socal31 Mar 2019 #1

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1. CA is lucky to be out of that beyond-exceptional drought.

Thu Mar 21, 2019, 01:02 PM

Mar 2019

But back-to-back dry years could be right around the corner.