It was announced on Thursday that California’s worst drought in at least 510 years covers virtually the entire state. The most expensive dryness, however, is in the southern half of California from Kern County into the L.A. Basin region. Huge cuts in critical supplies of irrigation water to farmers and ranchers are likely this summer.
The normal six-month dry season begins in May and doesn’t end until sometime in November, late October at the earliest. We foresee many large forest and brush fires in California and the rest of the parched Far West this 2014 fire season.
But, if we do see a new warm and wet El Nino develop this fall and winter in 2014-15, it could finally mean some significant drought relief for the Golden State and the parched Southwest.
