In other words, a normal year.....

LOS ANGELES (AP/CBS13) — California will likely face a critically dry year with much less runoff from the Sierra Nevada snowpack than normal and reservoirs that already are showing the impact of winter precipitation that is well below average, state water authorities said Tuesday.

MORE

*****

I was telling Elmo just the other day that a few years before I left California, I checked out the annual rainfall for the San Joaquin Valley where I used to live dating back to when they first started keeping records, the late 1880s. 

It showed 6 years of 'drought', then a wet year, then another 6-7 dry years, then a wet year. It's a normal pattern.