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After weeks of torrential rain across California, the state's major reservoirs have seen huge gains in water level.

This has also paralleled the widespread lifting of drought conditions across California: U.S. drought monitor data has shown that between January 3 and January 10, the percentage of the state experiencing "extreme drought"—the Drought Monitor's second most-severe level—dropped from 27.10 to 0.32 percent.

The rain has come as a massive relief to California's water-storage systems after an incredibly dry summer in 2022.The lake's water level on December 25, 2022 was 921.11 feet above sea level, while as of January 15, 2023, the water levels are at 973.76 feet. On January 9, the lake was still only at 942 feet above sea level.

The table below shows the changes in the water level of the state's 15 most voluminous lakes since January 9, with water level measured in feet above average sea level.However, many of the reservoirs across the Golden State are still at lower water levels than average, even for this time of year.

"Right now, we're at about 80 percent of what we normally would be on today's date," Donald Bader, the Northern California Area Office manager for the Bureau of Reclamation, previously told Newsweek. "We were in the 60s before, on historic average, so we're trending in the right direction, but what concerns us all the time is that the weather can change on a dime."While reservoirs are being filled up by the deluge of rain, that doesn't necessarily mean that the state will climb out of drought, due to the depleted stores of water in the groundwater.