No significant Rain through January in California?

I was listening to a weather channel video in the previous article and they were projecting no significant rain in California until February at this point except for a minor chance of rain in Los Angeles on January 25th. This is not good news for California which is in it's driest year so far since last January. If we don't get significant rain during the next 3 months farmers over most of California will not be allowed to have water to grow crops by the State or Federal Government which could be a real disaster for farmers. It would be the only way to keep people in their homes with enough water to survive the year in many places at this point without significant rainfall. As the weather patterns keep changing I have noticed that the droughts sort of moved from the South, then across the Midwest and finally now to SouthWest Oregon and the Northern parts of California that are in the worst droughts.

Here is a drought map from mother Jones:

Check Out This Shocking Map of California's Drought | Mother Jones

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Check Out This Shocking Map of California's Drought

—By James West

| Wed Jan. 8, 2014 12:44 PM GMT

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NASA GRACE Data Assimilation. Click to embiggen.

While the country's appetite for extreme weather news was filled (to the brim) this week by the polar vortex, spare a thought for sunny California, where exceptionally dry weather is provoking fears of a long, tough summer ahead.
The state is facing what could be its worst drought in four decades. The chart above, released by the National Drought Mitigation Center on Monday, shows just how dry the soil is compared to the historical average: the lighter the color, the more "normal" the current wetness of the soil; the darker the color, the rarer. You can see large swathes of California are bone dry.
Nearly 90 percent of the state is suffering from severe or extreme drought. A statewide survey shows the current snowpack hovering below 20 percent of the average for this time of year. The AP is reporting that if the current trend holds, state water managers will only be able to deliver 5 percent of the water needed for more than 25 million Californians and nearly a million acres of farmland.
A study published in Nature Climate Change at the end of last year found that droughts will probably set in more quickly and become more intense as climate change takes hold.