Central Valley sees steady rainfall from weekend storms

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Muddy waters surrounded a strawberry tract connected Sunday.

With back-to-back storms crossed the Central Valley, experts accidental we are collecting an mean magnitude of h2o for this clip of year.

"All h2o that falls from the entity is people welcomed, but usually, it's the wintertime storms from December done February that truly are the ones that marque the difference," says Randy McFarland with the Kings River Water Association.

McFarland says the terrible upwind we experienced past twelvemonth is thing we won't beryllium seeing this year.

With little snowfall and rainfall expected, McFarland says the canal strategy built respective decades agone is what keeps our crops growing.

"We are the richest producing portion of the United States and if we don't person capable water, we aren't going to turn things," helium said. "We cognize we don't person capable water, due to the fact that naturally, it doesn't rainfall capable here."

McFarland doesn't judge the rainfall has caused immoderate issues for farmers successful the area.

But adjacent with the accustomed amounts of rainfall and snow, determination are immoderate areas being intimately watched.

"Pine Flat Reservoir has the imaginable to capable this year, and it's hard to judge due to the fact that we haven't had that overmuch rain, but there's truthful overmuch carry-over water," McFarland said.

McFarland says the reservoir is 78 percent full, and it would instrumentality a large tempest to scope afloat capableness for the assemblage of water.

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