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Here are the major reservoirs in California.  Shasta and Oroville and Trinity are an enormous part of our state's water storage--located in the far north-- and they have a ways to go.  While the little local reservoirs filled first--they are too small to show on this chart.  The far north, strangely, has gotten less precip than the rest of the state.

https://cdec.water.ca.gov/resapp/RescondMain

And here is an overview of the state snowpack, which has pretty much reached normal for April 1, meaning if the faucet shuts off we will have a normal year.  Pay attention to the first number--not the second so much.

But more snow is coming, so it is almost certain that we will be above normal now, but how far above?  It is possible that the drought could end in one year, but also possible that even this wet winter won't quite do it.  What we need is a lot of snow in the far north of the state, and we need it to stay cold until April 1 and not melt before then.  That would break the drought.

https://cdec.water.ca.gov/snowapp/sweq.action

[81alum]

Here are the major reservoirs in California.  Shasta and Oroville and Trinity are an enormous part of our state's water storage--located in the far north-- and they have a ways to go.  While the little local reservoirs filled first--they are too small to show on this chart.  The far north, strangely, has gotten less precip than the rest of the state.

https://cdec.water.ca.gov/resapp/RescondMain

And here is an overview of the state snowpack, which has pretty much reached normal for April 1, meaning if the faucet shuts off we will have a normal year.  Pay attention to the first number--not the second so much.

But more snow is coming, so it is almost certain that we will be above normal now, but how far above?  It is possible that the drought could end in one year, but also possible that even this wet winter won't quite do it.  What we need is a lot of snow in the far north of the state, and we need it to stay cold until April 1 and not melt before then.  That would break the drought.

https://cdec.water.ca.gov/snowapp/sweq.action