Interior northern California is still experiencing widespread drought. For the month of September, there were no changes made to drought severity levels.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS STO wrote it up.
Interior northern California is still experiencing widespread drought. For the month of September, there were no changes made to drought severity levels. Much of the region remains in severe to extreme drought with portions of the northern San Joaquin as high as exceptional drought. Many local and regional, as well as state-wide restrictions continue. Agricultural surface water deliveries continue to be significantly reduced. The state-wide drought declaration by Governor Gavin Newsom continues. Mandatory water restrictions are in place on outdoor water use for all Californians with possible fines to violators. Agriculture and most of the state’s energy development are water-intensive industries and have less water for those purposes.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Sacramento, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 31, 2:34 PM PST, 9 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Sacramento CA 334 PM PDT Wed Aug 31 2022 .Synopsis... An extended period of dangerous heat expected for the holiday weekend into next week. && .Discussion... We are continuing to see southwest flow today and that will keep daytime highs near what we saw yesterday. Southwest/onshore flow will get cut off as the desert southwest high starts to build west into California. This will bring major warming and an extended period of dangerous heat to NorCal into the holiday weekend and for the first half of next week. Highs will start to bump up tomorrow and will be about 3 to 7 degrees warmer than today and range from 98 to 107 in the Valley and foothills. A trough will be passing to our north on Friday and that will bring little change when it comes to temperatures, they could even be a degree or two cooler than Thursday. With the upper level jet stream pushing well north over the weekend this will allow for the ridge and the heat to really build in. Widespread 100s can be expected on Saturday with high to very high heat risk. -CJM && .EXTENDED DISCUSSION (Sunday THROUGH Wednesday)... Anomalously strong high pressure will continue to influence our weather for the extended period keeping dangerous heat in place. Ensembles have slowed some, building in the worst heat now Monday and Tuesday and warmer conditions on Wednesday. We will still see highs push 101 to 110 Sunday. ECMWF Extreme Forecast Index peaks over our region on Monday and Tuesday and lingers into Wednesday with both GFS and EC ensembles showing 850mb temps 29 to 31C. This would indicate highs 102 to 113+. Daily record highs will likely fall on Sunday - Tuesday along with some all time September highs. We will likely stay short of any all time highs but should be within a few degrees for portions of the southern Sacramento Valley and northern San Joaquin Valley. We will see some cooling on Wednesday but the degree of cooling is uncertain as models are struggling with how quick the ridge breaks down. Things are still looking hot on Wednesday and the heat product may need to be extended an additional day especially in southern areas. Overnight lows will also be a major concern over the period and will only provide limited relief from the heat. Lows will only fall into the mid 60s to upper 70s in the Valley and mid 70s to mid 80s with some isolated upper 80s in the foothills. -CJM && .AVIATION... VFR conditions over next 24 hours. Gusts to 25 kts possible in the vicinity of the Delta. Elsewhere, surface winds generally under 12 kts. && .STO WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... Excessive Heat Warning from 11 AM Saturday to 8 PM PDT Tuesday for Carquinez Strait and Delta-Central Sacramento Valley- Motherlode-Mountains Southwestern Shasta County to Western Colusa County-Northeast Foothills/Sacramento Valley-Northern Sacramento Valley-Northern San Joaquin Valley-Shasta Lake Area / Northern Shasta County-Southern Sacramento Valley-West Slope Northern Sierra Nevada-Western Plumas County/Lassen Park. &&
10 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
For the month of September, the U.S. Drought Monitor kept all of Zone 13 in extreme drought (D3). The zone saw drought impacts continue due to the below average precipitation for the water year. Drought impacts include but are not limited too: agriculture, water supplies, recreation, and ecosystems.
For the month of September, the U.S. Drought Monitor kept approximately the western half of Zone 14 in extreme drought (D3) with the remainder of the zone in severe drought (D2). The zone saw drought impacts continue due to the below average precipitation for the water year. Drought impacts include but are not limited too: agriculture, water supplies, recreation, and ecosystems.
For the month of September, the U.S. Drought Monitor kept all of Zone 15 in extreme drought (D3). The zone saw drought impacts continue due to the below average precipitation for the water year. Drought impacts to the region include; little to no allocation of water from irrigation districts to agriculture, reduced rangeland forage without alternative forage, hay prices at record levels, cattle being sold, including calves that are typically sold in late Fall, increased fire danger, as well as increasing reports of dry wells. The local economy continues to be significantly impacted.
For the month of September, the U.S. Drought Monitor kept all of Zone 16 in extreme drought (D3). The zone saw drought impacts continue due to the below average precipitation for the water year. Drought impacts to the region include; little to no allocation of water from irrigation districts to agriculture, reduced rangeland forage without alternative forage, hay prices at record levels, cattle being sold, including calves that are typically sold in late Fall, increased fire danger, as well as increasing reports of dry wells. The local economy continues to be significantly impacted.
For the month of September, the U.S. Drought Monitor kept the majority of Zone 17 in extreme drought (D3). The zone saw drought impacts continue due to the below average precipitation for the water year. Some of the impacts the region saw included; reduced forage, decreased stock weights, livestock stress, selling of livestock, decrease in water allocation, increased reports of dry wells including domestic wells, hauling of water, and fallowed areas of cropland.
For the month of September, the U.S. Drought Monitor kept the eastern portion of Zone 18 in extreme drought (D3) with the remainder of the zone in severe drought (D2). The zone saw drought impacts continue due to the below average precipitation for the water year. Some of the impacts the region saw included; reduced forage, decreased stock weights, livestock stress, selling of livestock, decrease in water allocation, increased reports of dry wells including domestic wells, hauling of water, and fallowed areas of cropland.
For the month of September, the U.S. Drought Monitor kept interior portions of Zone 19 in exceptional drought (D4) and the remainder of the zone in extreme drought (D3), with the far western border of the zone in severe drought (D2). The zone saw drought impacts continue due to the below-average precipitation for the water year. Drought impacts include but are not limited to: agriculture, water supplies, recreation, and ecosystems.
For the month of September, the U.S. Drought Monitor kept the majority of Zone 63 in extreme drought (D3) with the far western border of the zone remaining in severe drought (D2). The zone saw drought impacts continue due to the below average precipitation for the water year. Drought impacts to the region include; little to no allocation of water from irrigation districts to agriculture, reduced rangeland forage without alternative forage, hay prices at record levels, cattle being sold, including calves that are typically sold in late Fall, increased fire danger, as well as increasing reports of dry wells. The local economy continues to be impacted.
For the month of September, the U.S. Drought Monitor kept the the northern and western portions of Zone 66 in extreme drought (D3) with the remainder of the zone in severe drought (D2). The zone saw drought impacts continue due to the below average precipitation for the water year. Drought impacts to the region include; little to no allocation of water from irrigation districts to agriculture, reduced rangeland forage without alternative forage, hay prices at record levels, cattle being sold, including calves that are typically sold in late Fall, as well as increasing reports of dry wells. The local economy continues to be impacted.
For the month of September, the U.S. Drought Monitor kept the southern portion of Zone 69 in Calaveras and Tuolumne counties in exceptional drought (D4), and kept a large region in the southwestern portion of the zone in extreme drought (D3) and the remainder of the zone in severe drought (D2). The zone saw drought impacts continue due to the below average precipitation for the water year. Drought impacts include but are not limited too: agriculture, water supplies, recreation, and ecosystems.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 2022Every state in 2022This day in weather historyWarnings in California, September 2022
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1057542, 1057543, 1057544, 1057545, 1057546, 1057547, 1057548, 1057550, 1057551, 1057552.