If you manage water operations in California, you know the challenge:

Making critical decisions while the official allocation is still uncertain.

You need to make costly decisions…

budgets, recharge schedules, infrastructure investments,

…all while flying blind.

By the time state guidance firms up, the best window for action may have already passed.

And that delay doesn’t just create stress, it costs real money and ripples down to the growers who rely on you.

That’s why Tehachapi-Cummings County Water District turned to Weather Tools.

With the California Annual Precipitation (CAP) forecast in hand by early November, General Manager Tom Neisler submitted a bold 35% operations plan, even while the official allocation was still just 15%.

By February, the state caught up.  

The new allocation was 35% – just as Neisler had anticipated based on CAP.

This wasn’t luck. It was a strategic outlook backed by nine years of forecast accuracy.

That significant lead time created real advantages:

• Growers like Grimmway Farms benefitted from the early guidance, planning with confidence.
• The district avoided energy cost overruns, using CAP to estimate pumping needs far in advance.
• Tom’s board took notice, watching a forecast-driven projection hit the mark.

“Without CAP, I would have given a much more conservative forecast,” Tom said. “That could have led to real economic pain.”

With CAP, the district didn’t wait— they got ahead.

Want to see how?

Read the full case study: From Water Budgets to Energy Bills: Tom Neisler’s CAP Advantage