Drought — Frazier Mountain Communities, California

2022-04-01 to 2022-04-30 · Frazier Mountain Communities, California

Event narrative

The Frazier Mountain Communities were classified as being in a extreme drought due to a long term precipitation deficit.

Wider weather episode

Rainfall was slightly below normal across much of the area in April. This did not improve the long term precipitation deficit from the previous several months. As a result, nearly all of the central California Interior remained in an extreme drought at the end of April, 2022. As of April, 2022, most of the impacted area has received less than 40% of normal precipitation since July 1, 2020.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1012233. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.