We're having another sunny rainless winter. Ranchers in Calaveras county are losing livestock because of a lack of plant growth. Cattle have eaten all of last years dry growth which is crucial to this years growth because it protects the new growth from frost, so the ranchers are having to pay big bucks to supplement their livestock with hay. This is just one example of many problems the lack of precipitation is causing. The link below explains more.
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This is a picture I took the other day of Folsom lake, which supplies a lot of the state with water.