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jpmattia | karma 3660 | avg karma 5.29 · 2016-12-05 15:43:04

About 88% of the state still in some form of drought.

helper | karma 2449 | avg karma 6.65 · 2016-12-05 16:10:47

btilly | karma 52813 | avg karma 4.93 · 2016-12-05 16:36:46

Nice! Too bad they don't offer one more bar for aggregated data.

That said, contributions to the snowpack will show up in reservoirs next year, so reservoir levels will be trailing indicators of final recovery.

greglindahl | karma 9606 | avg karma 2.0 · 2016-12-05 23:18:36+00:00

Recent winters have been so warm that early snow has melted very early. So reservoir levels are less of a trailing indicator than in the past.

btilly | karma 52813 | avg karma 4.93 · 2016-12-05 23:19:29+00:00

However if we have significant snow right now, that won't be showing up in the reservoirs yet. :-)

f_allwein | karma 2850 | avg karma 3.75 · 2016-12-06 00:36:35+00:00

What's the unit on the y axis...?

jpmattia | karma 3660 | avg karma 5.29 · 2016-12-06 00:44:49+00:00

TAF usually means Thousand Acre-Feet in water resources. (ie, a unit of volume.)

gtani | karma 4426 | avg karma 2.56 · 2016-12-06 03:17:53+00:00

Here's the current water content of snowpack, far below normal: http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/snowapp/sweq.action