La Nina
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Lets hope La Nina does not make a return in the fall/winter otherwise California could be in a pretty dire situation with another major prolonged drought. Hopefully next fall and winter will see some real storminess into the central west coast and help replenish our snowpack and water supply. We had great winters in 2017 and 2019. Otherwise most of the last decade was very dry and drought years. We also haven't had a full basin major strong El Nino in quite some time. Interestingly enough the winter of 2004/2005 brought over 38 inches of rain to Los Angeles and that wasn't even an El Nino year. The last major powerful El Nino was the 1997/1998 event.