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<h1 style='line-height:21.0pt;background:white'><u><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#34486C'>See
highlighted sections of article<o:p></o:p></span></u></h1>
<h1 style='line-height:21.0pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:
19.5pt;color:#34486C'>Fresno wraps up rain year at 69% normal <o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h4 style='margin-bottom:1.5pt;line-height:10.5pt;background:white'><span
lang=EN style='font-size:8.5pt;color:#697A85;font-weight:normal'>Published
online on Tuesday, Jun. 30, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.0pt;background:white'><span
class=byline5><span lang=EN style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>By
Paula Lloyd / The Fresno Bee</span></span><span lang=EN style='font-size:7.5pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#111111'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h4 style='background:white'><span lang=EN style='display:none'>Louisiana
farmers struggle with dry conditions<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:13.5pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#272627;display:none'>Louisiana got some
welcome rain this week, but farmers were still worrying about vulnerable crops
in drought conditions that even threatened to cancel their Fourth of July
fireworks displays. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:13.5pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#272627;display:none'>"So far,
we're 4 1/2 inches (of rain) behind for the year, and for the month, we're
almost every bit of that - 3 1/2 inches," said Gary Chatelain, a meteorologist
for the National Weather Service. "We were doing pretty good through May.
June's been a real disappointment." <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:13.5pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#272627;display:none'>Price Bundy of
Ida, who grows cotton and corn, said corn ears are just starting to fill out
and may be stunted without more rain.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:13.5pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#272627'>On Sunday, you needed an
umbrella to ward off the scorching heat. Tuesday morning, as Fresno awoke to
overcast skies, it looked like you might need one to fend off raindrops.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:13.5pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#272627'>But the clouds were only for
show.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:13.5pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#272627'>A weather spotter for the
National Weather Service reported a few sprinkles in Clovis overnight, but no
measurable rainfall.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:13.5pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#272627'>"There was not even enough
to splash the rain gauge at the airport," said Gary Sanger, meteorologist
at the weather service office in Hanford.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:13.5pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#272627'>Fresno ended the official rain
year at 87% of normal rainfall for the month of June. Normal rainfall for June
is 0.23 of an inch. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:21.6pt;
background:white'><a href="http://www.fresnobee.com/local/story/1508167.html"
id=cyclePrev><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#34486C;display:none;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=13
height=17 id="Picture_x0020_9" src="cid:image001.png@01C9FA38.5854B9F0"
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href="http://www.fresnobee.com/local/story/1508167.html"><span
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display:none;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=32 height=32
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href="http://www.fresnobee.com/local/story/1508167.html"><span
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href="http://www.fresnobee.com/local/story/1508167.html"><span
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display:none;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=13 height=17
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lang=EN style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#111111;
display:none'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:21.6pt;
background:white'><a
href="http://media.fresnobee.com/smedia/2009/06/30/23/362-CLOUDY_SKIES.standalone.prod_affiliate.8.jpg"
title=""MARK CROSSE / THE FRESNO BEE - Wispy clouds dissipate slowly after a cool, cloudy morning Tuesday gives way to mostly clear skies following a hot Monday that reached 106 degrees. Tuesday's high temperature was 101." "><span
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text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=300 height=199 id="Picture_x0020_13"
src="cid:image005.jpg@01C9FA38.5854B9F0"
alt="Fresno ends rain year at 69% normal "></span></a><span lang=EN
style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#111111'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:10.5pt;background:white'><span lang=EN
style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#697A85'>MARK
CROSSE / THE FRESNO BEE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=caption5 style='background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt'>Wispy
clouds dissipate slowly after a cool, cloudy morning Tuesday gives way to
mostly clear skies following a hot Monday that reached 106 degrees. Tuesday's
high temperature was 101.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:13.5pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#272627'>Three thunderstorms rumbled
over Fresno in June. The first one on June 3 slid past Fresno leaving a trace
of rain. Storms on June 4 and June 5 made a lot of racket but dropped only 0.20
of an inch of rain, measured at the Fresno Yosemite International Airport. The
rain season ended Tuesday with Fresno standing at 69% of normal rainfall for
the year, some 3.46 inches below normal. Fresno had 7.77 inches of rain from
July 1, 2008, to June 30, 2009. Normal annual rainfall is 11.23 inches.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:13.5pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#272627'>Like Fresno's rainfall, the
state's water supply also is below normal. Statewide, <span style='background:
yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>water levels in reservoirs are about 16% below
normal</span>, said Elissa Lynn, senior meteorologist with the State Department
of Water Resources.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:13.5pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#272627;background:yellow;mso-highlight:
yellow'>Water storage in the state's reservoirs was at 72% of normal on March
1, but had risen to about 83% of normal by Tuesday.</span><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#272627'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:13.5pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#272627'>"We've seen some
improvement over the spring," she said. "We were looking at a dire
situation."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:13.5pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#272627'>Still, the improvement is not
enough to end the state's drought conditions, Lynn said. Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger has declared a statewide drought emergency.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:13.5pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#272627'>The state's water system still
is getting water from mountain runoff, Lynn said. While the snowmelt has ended,
she said, there still is high runoff during the summer due to the lag time it
takes for water to travel through the mountains to watersheds. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:13.5pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#272627'>But for the third straight
year, runoff from the mountains is below normal, Lynn said. This year, runoff
is projected to be 70% of average by Sept. 30, when the state's water year
ends.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:13.5pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#272627'>"After three dry years, it
would certainly be bad to have a fourth," Lynn said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:13.5pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#272627'>If Fresno's recent cloud layer
didn't deliver any rain, it did bring relief from the "bone-searing"
high temperatures that baked Fresno over the weekend. Sunday's 108-degree high
tied a record for the date. Tuesday's high was 101.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:13.5pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#272627'>Today's high should be 99, with
97 on Thursday, 101 on Friday and back to 97 degrees for the Fourth of July.
Skies will be clear. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:13.5pt;background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
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