We are far from out of the woods when it comes to California’s historic drought. But forecasters gave a glimmer of hope with the first winter weather prediction of the season.The forecast doesn’t bode well for seeing major drought relief and actually may expand the drought a bit in the southeast. But while we have equal chances of wetter or dryer precipitation in California, the state has had a pretty good start to rainfall in October. An atmospheric river of moisture started the wet season.