California's reservoirs are looking much better after months of rain and snow. But ending the West's longest megadrought in hundreds of years? That's more complicated. wxjerdman has a full recap:
Escaping the megadrought? That's more complicated.for almost 7 million people.The West is in the midst of a much longer-term drought since the beginning of the 21st century, believed to be the region'sThis graph shows the percentage of the western United States in various categories of drought since 2000.
So it will take much more than this single wet winter and spring to replenish these depleted reservoirs.
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