All of Calif. in at least a moderate drought
By Olivia Allen-Price, KQED-TV
For the first time in the 15-year history of the National Weather Service Drought Monitor, 100 percent of California is judged to be in moderate to exceptional drought.
It’s a dramatic-sounding milestone, although the state has been lingering at the 99.8 percent mark since March 18.
Though it’s a first for California to be completely in drought, other states have been there before, including New Mexico in June 2013, and Texas from September through November 2011.
You’d need to return to a time before the Drought Monitor existed to see California in such a dire situation.