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Climatologists declare drought over for Orange County

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on February 28, 2008 at 4:16 pm

From the ScienceDude at the O.C. Register:

Federal climatologists today declared an end to Orange County’s long and damaging drought, reclassifying the region as abnormally dry, the lowest level of concern in a comparatively dry year.

Orange County thus becomes the last area of coastal Southern California to be removed from any of the drought categories that climatologists list on the U.S. Drought Monitor, which is updated weekly.

“Over the last 180 days or so, Orange County hasn’t done quite as well as other coastal areas when it came to rain, which is why it took longer for it to be listed as abnormally dry” said Brad Rippey of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which is part of the U.S. Drought Monitor team.

The situation was eased, in part, by three modest, back-to-back storms last week.

The reclassification simply means that there are few lingering signs of drought, such as wildlands covered by dry grass. The county is now mostly green, and wildflowers are popping up everywhere, including the areas scarred by October’s huge wildfires.

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February 28, 2008 · Filed Under Drought, Weather & Snowpack

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