California Drought

California has been suffering from a terrible drought the past couple years and it has freaked out a lot of people. The LA Times provides some answers why the drought is so bad. People have learned to conserve their water usage as much as they can and it has helped greatly in the past few years. A major impact was that the land was dry. There was a huge dry spell that went over California and because of the lack of snow and rain it hit California hard. Many reservoir levels decreased greatly and things that held water went dry. A reason that water shriveled up because we have been facing some of the hottest times lately. The winters are still cold but they are warmer than usual. The heat makes the drought conditions worse by increasing evaporation and drying soil out. These conditions California has been suffering lately has caused for many acres to be burned in wildfires across the Northern areas of California. There were record-breaking amount of acres that were burned in a calendar year with a total of 813,163 acres. Since there has not been much precipitation lately the vegetation has dried out which caused fuel moistures to drop to critically low numbers.

Check out the article here: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-grim-consequences-of-california-drought-accelerating-in-2015-20151001-story.html