Officials: More than 40 percent of California out of drought
Thursday, January 12, 2017 - 13:11
in Earth & Climate
SONOMA, Calif. (AP) -- More than 40 percent of California has emerged from a punishing drought that covered the whole state a year ago, federal drought-watchers said Thursday, a stunning transformation caused by an unrelenting series of storms in the North that filled lakes, overflowed rivers and buried mountains in snow....