Joe, Benny and all hte other members out there in CA, I hope you are all safe from the fires.

I did not realize, until the fires, how sever the drought was in your area. On a percentage basis, your drought is much worse than the southeast. At 2 inches out of a normal of 8, you are at 75% below normal. Most of the SE is 30 to 50% below normal.

How do your citrus trees make it with such minute rainfall? We need 6-8 inches a month during the summer here with our sandy soil.

Skeet, no need to worry about us here in the Northern California. It is our friends in the Southern California that we should worry about.

It is a La Nina year for us, which means that for us in the North, we would be getting normal to above normal rainfall via the warm rains of the pineapple express (scooping moiture off the oceans around Hawaii). We would have poor production of stone fruits and we could have a big chance of flooding when the snow will melt as warm rains pour down. So it could still be drought during the summer as some of our storage will melt away and run off into the ocean.

But the Southern California is projected to have extreme drought in this La Nina year.