California drought: Three more months of dry weather likely, NWS announces
In a new dose of bad news for a state growing increasingly concerned about lack of rain, California's historically dry weather is expected to last for at least another three months, federal scientists said Thursday.
The dire forecast for the rest of the state's winter rain season came as federal officials classified much of California as being in "extreme drought." And the Obama administration declared 27 California counties, including most of the Bay Area, as "natural disaster areas," eligible for emergency federal loans for farmers.
Computer models based on data from satellites, buoys in the Pacific Ocean and other sources favor below-normal levels of rainfall for California, much of Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and West Texas until April, according to a new report from the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center.
"There will be a few precipitation events, but we're looking at drier-than-normal conditions in February, March and April," said Matthew Rosencrans, a meteorologist with the agency, which is based in College Park, Md. "Right now we are saying the odds do not indicate a Miracle March, which is not a good thing."
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Next will be a prohibition on lawn watering (whey the HELL do we have lawns anyway?). But golf courses all over the state will be as green as they've always been 'cause, that's important! 
We've replaced all the lawn in the backyard with paving bricks and are in the process of doing the same to the front yard. We've taken out a lot of the decorative plants in the front yard as well. It looks like hell at the moment but when it's done it will look great.
I think this when I drive through San Marino. The lawns take up most of the property sq. footage. And they are perfect lawns, of course 
