After the second-driest February on record, March ended up being the fourth-driest for the Grass Valley region. The National Weather Service says we only got an inch-and-a-half of rain. That’s three inches less than a year ago and six-and-a-half inches below the normal total of eight inches. And for the season to date, meteorologist Cory Mueller says we’re at 37-and-half inches. And we’d need to get another fifteen inches between now and the end of the water season, on October first, just to get to the historic seasonal average…

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But Mueller says the atmospheric river in late October and the record snowstorm of late December continue to prop up the water year for us…

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Meanwhile, no rain is in the forecast for at least the next week.