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Yale Environment 360: Over the past three years of severe drought, California has accumulated a rain "debt" equal to a year's worth of precipitation, NASA researchers report in the Journal of Geophysical Research — Atmospheres. The state is roughly 20 inches behind in total precipitation, the scientists calculate, which is the average amount expected to fall in the state in a single year. The deficit has been driven primarily by a lack of extreme precipitation events known as atmospheric rivers — water vapor-rich air......
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California Has Missed Equivalent Of Full Year of Rain in Ongoing Drought, Study Shows
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 3rd, 2015
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