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All Dry on the Western Front

From brown landscapes to snow-free mountains, California was startlingly dry as a serious drought prompted a state of emergency.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story All Dry on the Western Front.

NASA images courtesy LANCE/EOSDIS MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published January 23, 2014
Data acquired January 18, 2014