Yeah, I’ve been thinking, “oh a couple more years like this, and the drought will be over,” but I just realized even that might not be true. Despite catastrophic flooding, we still haven’t hit “normal” seasonal rainfall and we might not get any more rain after this next river washes over us. (Since the latest drought started we had years where we got a lot of rain at the start of the season and then… nothing.) Locally we’re perhaps at less than half normal - we got a few days of heavy rain but it’s mostly been days of negligible precipitation, so even with the next week of rain, we could end up adding to the overall water deficit rather than starting to reverse it.
California’s future might be droughts alternating with flooding, but it’s just as likely to be droughts and flooding at the same time.
