That’s just insane. By my high school math, 516 inches equals 43 feet of snow.
That will equal what? About 7 feet of water coming down the pike soon?
And April is said to be peak snowfall time!
I wouldnt doubt that would increase to about 10 feet of water.
They had better open them dams up and let a lot more out.
I’ve always been fascinated by the vast power of storms. Over 27,000 gallons is laid down per acre per inch of rainfall. Try this stat: the largest reservoir in the state is Lake Shasta, capacity 4.5 million acre feet. Since it started storming late in December, 1.4 million acre feet has been added to the lake. 450 billion gallons, give or take. And that’s just one reservoir, and, at 61% full because it is so huge and was so low, it’s lagging all other major reservoirs. We may have real problems if it warms too quickly come spring with the vast snowpack and full reservoirs