The final stretch of 2021 gave a tiny glimpse of hope for drought-weary Californians because storms were coming -- but they weren't enough.
After months of extreme drought in the West triggered unprecedented water cuts and primed the landscape for massive wildfires, the final stretch of 2021 gave a tiny glimpse of hope for drought-weary Californians.
Storms were coming.California -- facing back-to-back dry years and record-breaking heat waves that pushed the drought into historic territory -- got a taste of the rain it was looking for in October, when the first big storm of the season pushed onshore. Then in late December, more than 17 feet of snow fell in the Sierra Nevada, which researchers said was enough to break decades-old records.
"It's extremely fortunate that October and December 2021 were very wet months in California, as otherwise this extremely dry January and start to February would have produced pretty dire consequences," Swain said.The climate crisis is making droughts more severe and more frequent, scientists have reported. The consequences of the crisis were clear this summer when officials in the West announced the first water cuts on the Colorado River. In California, Gov.
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