California enters new water year with focus on flood preparedness in Valley

Looking astatine the past 12 months, the authorities says it was a importantly adust twelvemonth for Southern California counties.

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- California enters its caller h2o twelvemonth Wednesday.

The authorities says it's preparing for upwind extremes arsenic it copes with national cuts to programs.

The Department of Water Resources provided outlooks for the adjacent 12 months.

The DWR says the California-Nevada River Forecast Center has been a cardinal partner, but national unit losses determination person led to gaps.

The section is waiting to spot if backing cuts volition besides interaction the snowfall survey operations.

Officials accidental unit has been reduced by astir 30 percent successful the Bureau of Reclamation offices successful California.

"That means little accusation and perchance little process astir however we stock and log, if you will, the mode the projects run jointly to conscionable regulatory requirements, for example," says DWR Director Karla Nemeth.

Looking astatine the past 12 months, the authorities says it was a importantly adust twelvemonth for Southern California counties.

La Nina conditions are expected successful the adjacent mates of months -- that's the chill signifier of a earthy clime signifier crossed the tropical Pacific.

Climatologists are watching precocious unit starring to acold aerial outbreaks and terrible storms.

The DWR says it's focused connected flood preparedness successful the Central Valley.