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18 Oct, 7 tweets, 4 min read
In a year of both extreme heat and extreme drought, California has reported its driest water year in terms of precipitation in a century, and experts fear the coming 12 months could be even worse.

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The Western Regional Climate Center added average precipitation that had been reported at each of its stations and calculated that a total of 11.87 inches of rain and snow fell in California in the 2021 water year.

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Based on the diminished levels of both precipitation and runoff, the last water year was the second driest on record, according to the California Department of Water Resources.

The last time the state reported so little rain and snowfall was in 1924.

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As reservoirs are depleted, emergency drought proclamations have been issued in 50 of California’s 58 counties.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has called on Californians to voluntarily reduce water use by 15%.

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All but two of California’s major reservoirs are below their average storage level. Lake Oroville, the second-largest reservoir in the state, is at a record low. And Lake Shasta, the largest reservoir, is critically low.

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Increasingly warmer temperatures have evaporated precipitation and melted snowpack much faster than in previous years, according to a recent study by NOAA.

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California recorded its hottest summer this year, and the extreme heat has parched the landscape.

And as the newest water year begins, the state could be in for more of the same.

Read more from @lauraanayam_ at latimes.com/california/sto…

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