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California-Nevada Drought Outlook May 2017

Document Author

David Simeral, WRCC/DRI; Shrad Shukla, CNAP/UCSB; Gina McGuire, BLM; Thomas Rolinski, USFS; Amanda Sheffield, NIDIS/SIO/ UCSD

Document File

California-Nevada Drought Outlook May 2017 (1.6 MB)

Document Date

June 13, 2017

Document Type

Outlooks

Document Description

Summary of current conditions, climate outlook, and fire potential outlook for California and Nevada from a webinar conducted May 30, 2017. The webinar was part of a series designed to provide stakeholders and other interested parties in the region with timely information on current drought status and impacts, as well as a preview of current and developing climatic events like La Niña.

text about current conditions as of May 30, 2017 in CA, NV, with graphs of Oct-April precipitation in each state and map showing Oct-April precipitation percentailes across the West, which were mostly much above normal if not record wettest

State(s)

California

Nevada

DEWS Region(s)

California Nevada

Climate Region(s)

Western Climate Region