https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/02/20/new-california-drought-report-shows-dry-areas-expanding-with-no-rain-in-forecast/

Following another week without rain — and none forecast through the end of this month — the federal government on Thursday announced that unusually dry conditions are expanding across a wider swath of California’s landscape.

Overall, 59.9% of the state’s land area is now classified as “abnormally dry,” up from 46.1% last week, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, a weekly report issued by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.