{"id":23786,"date":"2017-01-12T16:37:08","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T00:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23786"},"modified":"2017-01-12T16:37:08","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T00:37:08","slug":"rain-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/rain-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Predicted California Snow and Rain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/mamwint.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california-cities\/mammoth-lakes.html\">Mammoth Mountain<\/a> reports it now has the most snow of any <a href=\"http:\/\/seecalifornia.com\/sports\/ski\/california-ski-resorts.html\">ski resort in California<\/a> and the country with a base depth of 130-245&#8243; and it&#8217;s still growing. Is California out of the drought yet &#8212; and did anyone predict this wet winter?<\/p>\n<p>Officially, California remains in a drought emergency until Gov. Brown issues a change to the formal declaration from several years ago. The numbers from the state\u2019s winter snow and rain season won&#8217;t\u00a0be finalized for a couple\u00a0 months. For now,\u00a0more than 40% of California is no longer in drought, data shows.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What were the predictions for the season? In June through September 2016 news headlines read:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>La Nina is on the way &#8212; don&#8217;t expect California&#8217;s drought to ease.<\/li>\n<li>California Forecasters in Crapshoot Predicting Winter Weather.<\/li>\n<li>Weather forecasters don&#8217;t have a strong sense of what the season will hold for the state.<\/li>\n<li>Generally, a mild winter is once again expected.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s always uncertainty with climate forecasts. They&#8217;re not the same as weather forecasts; that&#8217;s why they&#8217;re given in a probabilistic sense. &#8211; Climate Prediction Center<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mammoth Mountain reports it now has the most snow of any ski resort in California and the country with a base depth of 130-245&#8243; and it&#8217;s still growing. Is California out of the drought yet &#8212; and did anyone predict this wet winter? Officially, California remains in a drought emergency until Gov. Brown issues a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23786"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}