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California Drought Weakens, Forecasters 'Cautious Optimism' for Future
2014-12-19 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: About 32% of California, however -- most of it in the Central Valley -- remains under the exceptional drought category. Last week the total was at more than 55%. "The wet weather finally allowed ample runoff (while producing stream and river flooding) that raised major reservoir levels...in most of northern and central California," the report said. "`Cautious optimism, but still a long way to go` would be the very short summary for this week`s California drought picture," the report said. ...
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NASA: California Needs 11 Trillion Gallons Water to End Epic Drought
2014-12-17 17:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Californias record-setting three-year-old drought has left the state with a massive water deficit, and communities, agricultural interests and others warring over access to the supply. Now groundbreaking new calculations based on Now groundbreaking new calculations based on NASA satellite data have revealed just how large that deficit is. A team of scis Jet Propulsion Laborator (JPL) crunched data from NASAs Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) to figure out how much water it would...
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Sustainability in Wine - Part III: Dealing with Drought in California
2014-12-17 11:22:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
In the third of our four-part look at sustainability in the wine category, Ben Cooper considers the drought that has affected California's winelands for the last three years.
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Drought Recovery? California Will Need 11 Trillion Gallons Water
2014-12-17 04:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: California has been suffering from a three-year-drought that is the worst the region has seen in more than a millennium. Now an analysis conducted by NASA has revealed that in order for the state to recover from its current predicament, it's going to have to gain 11 trillion gallons of water back somehow. That finding was part of an overall review of the drought's recent peak, which was conducted by NASA experts and presented Tuesday at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco....
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Early winter storms put dent California drought
2014-12-17 03:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A trifecta of early winter storms that swept California with heavy rain and snow in the past two weeks put a promising dent in a severe drought entering its fourth year, but the water shortage remains far from over, water officials said on Tuesday. Depleted reservoirs and the Sierra Nevada snowpack, which normally constitutes the state's largest natural store of fresh surface water, received a welcome boost from successive Pacific storms on Dec. 1-2, Dec. 11-12 and again on Monday and Tuesday....
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