Topic: Looking Back and Forward: A Water Year
2022 Review and Expectations for Water Year 2023
Speakers: Michael L Anderson, State
Climatologist, California Department of Water Resources
When: Friday, October 7th, 2022, 12 pm to 1pm
Where: Virtual (via Zoom)—Link to virtual
seminar to be sent upon RSVP
The recording of the webinar is available
here.
Water Year 2022 completes the third year of the current drought, which is
the third record-setting multi-year drought of the 21st century. The
year was marked by a number of extremes from a category 5 atmospheric
river in October to an extraordinarily wet December that transitioned to
a record setting dry stretch with the new calendar year. As summer has
progressed record setting features of the Southwest Monsoon appeared
with notable impacts at Death Valley. As water year 2023 kicks off,
expectations are for a third year of La Nina conditions to be present in
the eastern tropical Pacific. The talk will review water year 2022 and
compare facets of it to past years and then look ahead to set
expectations for water year 2023.
