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Mark Fiore: Drawn to the Bay

When It Rains, It Pours

Mark Fiore
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Cartoon: we see two National Park Service employees treading water above an "extreme fire danger" sign. One says, "guess we can change the sign now."While the deluge over the weekend may have put an end to wildfire season, ending the drought is going to take a lot more than one atmospheric river.

Meteorologist Jan Null, a longtime weather guru, estimates that California will need more than 140% of our normal rainfall to end the drought.

Here's hoping we get more atmospheric rivers, "bomb cyclones" or whatever develops as the latest wet, catchy term.

I, for one, am breathing a sigh of relief after months of being on hair-trigger fire alert.

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