California Drought Improvement

Drought in California improving due to recent rains.

Here is the National Weather Service's map showing how much rain (in addition to normal) needed to break the drought in California and surrounding areas as of December 13 at 7am.

For comparison, the December 6 map:

And, here is what the situation looked like on November 29:

Significant additional rains have fallen since Saturday morning.

And, more rain is forecast. See below:

So, at least for the moment, things are looking up in California.