California in midst of historic drought conditions. This week heatwave swept drought-stricken Northern California, breaking records and heating an already dried landscape.
California’s Epic Drought Is Parching Reservoirs and Worrying Farmers By Leslie Kaufman and Eugene Reznik | June 3, 2021
As any movie fan knows from the classic film
Chinatown, California is an infamously thirsty place. But this year, even by its own standards, the state is shockingly, scarily parched. So far in 2021, the state has received half of its expected precipitation; that makes it the third driest year on record according to California’s Department of Water Resources.
This past week, as temperatures from Sacramento up to the Oregon border topped 100º Fahrenheit, the intense heat evaporated the remaining water at an astonishing pace, creating scenes more reminiscent of Hollywood-manufactured dystopias like
The owners of dozens of boats moored on the body of water in California were asked to put the vessels in dry dock, or risk seeing them run aground and be damaged.
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