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As I said, monsters. I mean this is the worst way for writing dates. So thats why this data representation sucks, sorry OP. Horrible job

Important caveat is that since then, we’ve damned many rivers and built many reservoirs to capture the runoff. Those were also at historic lows thanks to the drought, so it would take a lot to overcome that deficit and produce such terrible flooding again. Not saying it can’t happen, but it would take a lot. Also, the Dollop did a great episode on the great flood.

americans, get over it

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this is a terrible graph. the z axis doesn't line up with anything south of northern california.

Why would you not make the background black/dark blue so that the visual representing the snow could be white and off-white?

Yeah this is horrible.

white areas: “MA! PA FELL DOWN THE STAIRS! GET THE SHOTGUN!”

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Any chance you could do this for Montana? I know a rural healthcare worker that would be really into that.

Surprised you can even interpret that this is a graph of California most people that whine like you do can't! Good job kiddo!

Current snow depth is over 30 feet in some places so this seems a little off.

A significant change between then and now is the dams we built to protect against exactly that.

What about the Chicago area

Move to Chicago then

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What monster uses MM-DD-YYYY?

I like how you made a non-political post political for no reason. Tell me who you voted for in 2020 without telling me.

Well it is data. It sure isn’t beautiful though.

From the sidebar: "DataIsBeautiful is for visualizations that effectively convey information"

This plot doesnt do that, even though it might look cool.

I wonder what this looks like for states with extremely low population density like Alaska

Great data capture, but little connection to the people in the state. There's no y axis limit indicator of where the Democrat Machine in power will stop screaming about drought conditions. Admonishment of CA citizens for their lack of consideration for 'drought' conditions' were on LA freeway's as recently 3 months ago, and I bet will be returned in 5 months. And it is for this reason the population will be struck with detachment from reality and the Dems might likely lose their power in office since their party has killed all reasonable new rainfall reclamation efforts and infrastructure in the state for the last 40 years, totally, and completely, unnecessarily. (If you ignore the Dem's grab for emotion-driven attainment of power in the name of caring about... fish that will survive...anything.).

So, great graph! But it should connect to the people in some way, as to what they are experiencing.

Here is the current drought monitor. One wet year did in fact lift a significant portion of California completely out of the drought. Comparison from 3 months ago.