Dry February sends California back to drought: `This hasn`t happened in 150 years`
(The Guardian United States)

February is typically one of the wettest months in California, but the state is parched, and there´s no moisture in the forecastsSan Francisco and Sacramento have not seen a drop of rain this February, and climate scientists are expecting that disturbing dry trend to hold, in what is typically one of the wettest months of the year for California.`This hasn´t happened in 150 years or more,` said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA´s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. `There have even been a couple wildfires - which is definitely not something you typically hear about in the middle of winter.` Continue reading...