You know the answer already. No, the drought isn’t over in Southern California – even with this burst of insane amounts of rain the last five days, Alex Tardy, a National Weather Service meteorologist in San Diego, said Monday, Jan. 23. “It’s not likely that this month or next month we’ll erase the drought because our deficit is so large,” Tardy said. “The one thing we have to keep in mind is that our deficits are still 20 to 24 inches of rain over the past six years.”