Drought buster? Up to 10 feet of snow this week for California’s Sierra Nevada

wattsupwiththat.com/ ^ | 18 hours ago January 4, 2016 | Anthony Watts

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

It’s coming.

[gwgn02]

Same cycle CA always gets every decade or so.

[BenLurkin]

Sure is taking it’s time.

[umgud]

Lots forecast, but damned little rain here in Bakersfield today. 70-90% for most days this week. We’ll see. But, snow in the mountains is a lot more important and we’re already ahead.

[minnesota_bound]

All this water and the politicians will see to it that 80% is flushed into the ocean. They will build no more storage and continue to destroy the central valley with arbitrary water cutoff to protect a minnow that is not endangered.

[glaseatr]

I'll believe it when I see it. Until then, it's more media bullshit.

[Marine_Uncle]

And I really expect a number of upcoming years to deliver
a lot of rain and snow to California as well as the whole
West Coast. The new cycle is in place.

[Yogafist]

yeah, no kidding. They are predicting 90% chance here in So Cal tomorrow, so I guess I will ride my motorcycle.

[JennysCool]

I can’t wait until the collective insanity of the ‘60s and ‘70s pot-fueled “environmentalists” is a footnote in the history of the ridiculous.

[Yogafist]

to work. That’s where I am going to ride it.

[going hot]

Going to be some good fishing the rivers this year.

[Mariner]

I drove hom to Sac from Reno yesterday.

There was at least 4ft on the ground at the top of Donner.

At the top of the Mt Rose Highway between Reno and Tahoe, there was at least 6ft at pass level.

It would be nice to have a 25ft year.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Yep...right on schedule. Population of state doubled in last couple decades. Did we double our water storage? Of course not. It’s hardly changed.

[going hot]

And I’ll have my tag back, thank you.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

10 feet of snow is roughly 12 inches of rain. This storm might dump, at most, a couple of inches of rain over the Bay Area. It’s amazing how much moisture passes right over the Bay Area and then dumps in the Sierras

[gwgn02]

Its the Orographic effect

[Fungi]

Bingo!!! — almost to the most acclaimed seven mark.

[rktman]

Stupid glow-bull discombobulation. :>}

[Paul R.]

That last graph is great!

I’ll bet most Californians would think again about their “great climate” if they had to live through the droughts around 1150 or 1250.

It’s difficult to see any correlation (in the last 1200 years) between global temps and rainfall in CA. It probably take a period of serious glaciation to do that...