“Another data point just came in. The lake level has dropped 1/2 foot in the last two hours.”
Area of Lake Oroville is about 65,000,000 square meters. It dropped about .07 meters/hr. That’s about 4,550,000 cubic meters/hour, or about 1,201,655,000 gallons/hr, or about 20,000,000 gal/min (2.67 million cubic feet/min), or only 45,000 cf/s.
Since I heard they are releasing 100,000 cf/s, unless there is a lot more water coming into the lake, they should be OK after several more hours.
Good math work! Inflow’s about 40K cfs at the moment.