Big Improvement in California’s Drought Status

The 4 year historic drought in California has seen some major improvement this rainy season and millions of people are seeing slow but steady recovery. An update to the U.S. drought monitor came out this morning and declared a large area of Central California, from roughly Sacramento to Fresno, slightly improved regarding the drought.

They have many classifications of drought, but the top level drought is called D4-Exceptional drought.  At the beginning of the water year for California in October, 46 percent of the state was in top level drought.  With the latest update, we are now down to 21 percent.