Interested in California Drought? Add California Drought as an interest to stay up to date on the latest California Drought news, video, and analysis from ABC News. Plunging rods into snowpacks to measure the snow depth, water managers use the event to acquaint Californians with the state of the water supply. Los Angeles is marking a record dry spell, with rainfall just 9 percent of normal for the past 10 months, the weather service said. And it's early in the winter rainy season yet — California normally receives half its rain between December and February.

Source: ABC News January 03, 2018 08:58 UTC