The California Drought Is Even Worse Than You Think

That California sunshine has grown dangerous. While parts of the US are battling major blizzards, California has stayed dangerously dry this season, suffering through a drought that's lasted three years. In mid-January, California Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state emergency, calling it "perhaps the worst drought that California has ever seen since records began about 100 years ago." To put the effects in perspective, the snow levels in the Sierra Nevada mountains are at only 12 percent of the av...