Draught is an extremely noisy measurement. Because California got some unexpected but not unprecedented rain, draught on average is way down. However many par

Draught is an extremely noisy measurement. Because California got some unexpected but not unprecedented rain, draught on average is way down. However many parts of the US are also extremely abnormally dry- even if they aren't pushed into full on draught: https://www.wbur.org/news/2016/09/01/driest-boston-summer https://www.wbur.org/news/2016/09/01/driest-boston-summer It doesn't even matter if the dryness has no negative effect whatsoever (which it certainly does), because it's a measurement of a trend and it WILL eventually cause issues.