Yeah, the rains being heavy isn’t terribly helpful, but the core issue is that on a state-wide level, it’s the (lack of) snow, more than the rain, that drives drought conditions. On a very local level, the rain is totally alleviating drought conditions - nearby ground water is heavily replenished from waterways fed by reservoirs, and even if the reservoirs don’t fill up, the ground won’t be completely dried out in a couple months like it was last year, trees will stop dying and native plants will be able to recover a bit.
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