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CLIMATE DIVISION CA-2

Sacramento Drainage

NOAA California climate division CA-2 — the whole measured record, 1895 to 2025.

DIVISION CA-2 CALIFORNIA

The record in brief

GENERATED FROM THE DIVISIONAL TABLE

Sacramento Drainage is NOAA climate division CA-2. The Sacramento Valley and everything draining into it: the northern Sierra, the southern Cascades, and the Modoc plateau.

  • Warming, 1895–2025: +1.75°F per century (95% interval ±0.57), statistically significant.
  • Warmest year: 2014, at 57.6°F.
  • Water-year normal, 1991–2020: 35.8 inches.
  • Wettest water year: 1983, 60.6 inches. Driest: 1924, 14.3 inches.
  • Precipitation trend: +0.1 inches per century, not distinguishable from zero.
  • ENSO correlation: r = 0.161 between the DJF Oceanic Niño Index and water-year precipitation, over 76 winters.

Temperature

ONE STRIPE PER YEAR, AND THE SERIES BENEATH IT

Precipitation

WATER YEARS, AS A PERCENT OF NORMAL

This division against the state

WHERE IT SITS

All seven divisions are side by side here. For the climate of individual places inside this division — named stations, with their elevations and distances — see the same division on Golden State Weather.