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Makes for a catchy headline, but you only have to go back to Jan 9, 2024* to find a similarly 'drought free' California:

https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/CompareTwoWeeks.aspx

(*Technically slivers of the state in the far north/south were 'abnormally dry' in 2024, a small difference from 2026)

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For a quicker way to find near-alls you can go to https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/DmData/DataTables.aspx?state,... and select "All" at the bottom then sort D0-D4 ascending. It looks like 2011 had many dates 0.01 cumulative percent area!

The difference between 0% and almost 0% is mostly a cartographic one

my reaction is pretty much "well, it's middle of winter"

Wait so who is being dishonest, the old article, the new one, or both?

yes!

There’s ample dishonesty to go round, no one has to miss out if they don’t want to.

Arguably, there are an infinite number of things that are dishonest, and only a finite number of things that can be honest at any given moment.

Therefore one can honestly say that there are effectively zero honest things, and the entirety of human thought and speech, the noosphere as it where, is the singular dishonesty.

The dishonest-gularity.

I'm not sure that "effectively zero" is quite right; "approximately zero" seems more correct. And on that note, there are also approximately zero instances in the history of the universe where someone has responded to your comment, but hey look, I'm doing it now!

I didn’t find this particularly helpful if I’m honest

Both!

I only found one article. GP linked to the data that the article is based on, showing a day when California was almost drought-free but still had abnormally dry areas.

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