Driest Year EVER Recorded in California

Sounds like the drought in California is getting very serious.  2013 is being reported as the driest year EVER!

As California struggles through a run of historically dry weather, most residents are looking at falling reservoir levels, dusty air and thirsty lawns.

But meteorologists have fixed their attention on the scientific phenomenon they say is to blame for the emerging drought: a vast zone of high pressure in the atmosphere off the West Coast, nearly four miles high and 2,000 miles long, so stubborn that one researcher has dubbed it the "Ridiculously Resilient Ridge."

Like a brick wall, the mass of high pressure air has been blocking Pacific winter storms from coming ashore in California, deflecting them up into Alaska and British Columbia, even delivering rain and cold weather to the East Coast. Similar high-pressure zones pop up all the time during most winters, but they usually break down, allowing rain to get through to California. This one, ominously, has anchored itself for 13 months, since December 2012, making it unprecedented in modern weather records and leaving researchers scratching their heads.

"It's like the Sierra -- a mountain range just sitting off the West Coast -- only bigger," said Bob Benjamin, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Monterey. "This ridge is sort of a mountain in the atmosphere. In most years, it comes and goes. This year it came and didn't go."

Last year was the driest calendar year in recorded history in California in most cities, with records going back 160 years. The first snowpack reading in the Sierra Nevada earlier this month found a snowpack of just 20 percent of normal.

Here;  http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_24904396/california-drought-whats-causing-it?nstrack=sid:11367194|met:0000300|cat:0|order:23&source=dailyme

Holy high pressure ridge!!  It's like a gigantic mountain range of high pressure parked off the coast that doesn't allow any rain clouds to get through it....and it is totally blocking California!!  This one has "ominously" stuck around for over 13 months making it 'unprecedented" in modern weather records!!!!

Boy-oh-boy....what would happen to the land of fruit and nuts if it doesn't rain?  Where would all those millions of people get the water to flush, wash, water their country clubs and fill their swimming pools??  

How much would a house be worth in beautiful San Francisco if there was no water except what could be brought in on a truck??  Guessing that would collapse the economy.

"But Dennis, I don't live in California so I don't really care what happens there."

Just do a quick Google search and figure out how much of this nation's food comes from California and all of it is grown on land that is irrigated from reservoirs which are now almost empty.  You will quickly figure out WHY a severe drought in California DOES affect everyone in America.

Hmmm.....we have said for years now that what happens in California seems to spread through the entire nation.  

I wonder if this lack of rain has anything to do with gay marriage, gay lifestyle worship, porn industry, rampant divorce, numerous abortion clinics and massive amounts of immorality that run wild in Hollywood, San Francisco and other California cities?

After all, God used droughts in ancient Israel to get their attention....