San Francisco and most of the northern state have received just sprinkles to no rain in what is usually its wettest month of the year – a first in 150 years of recorded history.  Now, a new map from the US Drought Monitor shows 60 percent of California’s land area is either ‘abnormally dry’ or in a ‘moderate drought’.  Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, said: ‘This hasn’t happened in 150 years or more.’