This year’s El Niño may not deliver drought-busting rains to California as is popularly believed. The ongoing drought in California has been one for the record books. Southern California has not met yearly average rainfall since 2010, and the central and northern parts have not achieved this since 2012. Californians are hoping that this rainy season, which lasts from November through April, will be wetter than normal thanks to the record-strong El Niño, which has delivered sizable winter rainfall to the state in the past. Reservoirs have been drying up since last year, particularly since snowfall in the Sierra Nevada mountain range has been far below average in recent years. This past spring, record-low snowpack was recorded in the Sierras. California is a major hydroelectric power producer, and one-fifth of the state’s electricity comes […]