Nearly half of California is back in a drought
By Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle
The T-shirt-wearing temperatures and lack of winter rain have combined to push nearly half of California into all-too-familiar territory: a state of drought.
Less than a year after Gov. Jerry Brown declared an end to one of the worst droughts in California history, a consortium of nationwide water experts reported Thursday that 44 percent of the state is again experiencing at least moderate drought conditions.
The plight is worst in Southern California, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.