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hatrack

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Sun Jun 29, 2014, 12:00 PM Jun 2014

Past 3 Driest 3 Years On Record For Fresno, CA - Records Began In 1878




Millerton Lake from the Madera County side on Memorial Day weekend 2014.

California got just enough rain to avoid the driest winter in memory, but Fresno still will reach an all-time landmark — the worst three-year drought since record-keeping began in 1878. The last three years here have been drier than the Dust Bowl-era years of 1931 to 1934, the previous worst dry spell in the city's records. "The headline for this year really is Fresno's three-year total," said National Weather Service meteorologist Paul Iniguez in Hanford.

The record becomes official at midnight Monday, which is the end of the 2013-14 rainfall season. Rainfall is counted from July 1 through June 30.

The coming winter might be a downer, too, even though the warm water of El Niño is building in the Pacific Ocean. El Niño can mean a wet winter in California, but it does not look strong enough yet to create more than a 50-50 chance of breaking the drought.

With the rainfall season officially ending Monday, Fresno's 4.81-inch total ranks second-driest for a one-season total, behind the 4.43 inches of 1933-34, the National Weather Service said. But Fresno's record three-year run of drought holds relevance well beyond the city limits.

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http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/06/28/4001984/fresnos-driest-3-years-on-record.html?sp=/99/406/263/
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Past 3 Driest 3 Years On Record For Fresno, CA - Records Began In 1878 (Original Post) hatrack Jun 2014 OP
Saw an interesting time lapse film at San Diego Museum pipoman Jun 2014 #1
 

pipoman

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1. Saw an interesting time lapse film at San Diego Museum
Sun Jun 29, 2014, 02:09 PM
Jun 2014

Of Natural History. It started I think 10 million years ago and worked forward to the present ending with Balboa Park as it is today. It went from long periods of lush green to periods after arid and barren.

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