Annual precipitation (July–June) through 2018–2019 at the closest weather station (Lebec, about 8 km straight-line distance northwest) to Gorman Pond in the Tehachapi Mountains, Los Angeles County, California, USA (https://www.weather.gov/wrh/Climate?wfo=hnx). Because the Lebec weather station ceased reporting data after 2019, rain data for 2019–2021 through 2022–2023 are from the Sandberg station, 8.5 km southeast of the pond. Year shown are the end years (e.g., 2000–2001 is shown as 2001). The dashed line is the 30-year long-term average from 1970 to 1999, excluding those rain years that had missing data during the peak rain period (October–March).