Posted on 02/18/2017 11:54:06 AM PST by Mariner
These three graphs show key California reservoir conditions and river stages for the upper and lower Sacramento Valley for Saturday, February 18, 2017. The images are from the California Department of Water Resources’ Data Exchange Center and the National Weather Service.
Want to compare to yesterday? See reservoir and river levels for February 17, 2017. For February 16, 2017.
RESERVOIR CONDITIONS
ENDING MIDNIGHT, FEBRUARY 17, 2017
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Don Pedro will use their spillway for the first time in 20 years and flood the Tuolumne through Modesto.
They've been draining Shasta for two weeks, but it all depends on how much water drops.
OROVILLE might have room to avoid water over the emergency spillway.
We are expecting between 5.0 and 7.5 inches of rain in the low mountains and foothills. Let's hope it snows above 5,000ft.
The Sacramento River in Sacramento is running approx 230,000cfs after siphoning at least 1/2 off at the Fremont Weir and into the completely flooded Yolo bypass.
Is the drought officially over yet?
Looks like the drought has come to a close. From a city that experienced 3 500 year floods in eight years, Be Safe!
This is great. We need the rain.
It’s amazing how liberals make anything a crisis.
Rainfall Projections Will Overtop Emergency Spillway by 13 Feet at Oroville Dam (313)
16FEB2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgBW09wd5so
They should be asking how ‘full’ Jerry Brown is.
Drought Monitor.
US
http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/
California
https://www.drought.gov/drought/california
The guy in that video doesn’t know what he is talking about.
It’s mostly hyperbole.
So 11 inches of projected rain is fine?
https://www.iceagenow.info/huge-atmospheric-river-taking-aim-oroville-dam/
IF, big IF, 11 inches drops...all of these dams are at risk and will have to release water at their highest capacity.
And the Central Valley will turn into a lake.
The big ones (Lexington, Coyote and Anderson) are over 100% full and spilling.
Nope. If we declare it over why then no more applying for Federal money to combat it. Don’t believe me, well here it is. http://www.lodinews.com/news/article_98a56980-edd4-11e6-904b-e742777f1b60.html
So, I had a look at the models and here’s what they show ...
Not much rain likely for the rest of the weekend, with the exception of southeast California getting the remnants of the Friday soaker. Maximum of maybe 0.2 inches in higher areas of the north and central.
Heavy rain likely Monday and Tuesday in central and northern California. About 3-6 inches potential in most areas and 6-12 in high rainfall zones, snow line around 7,000 feet in this event. At the moment this seems to be avoiding southern California.
Mid-week generally dry and turning a lot colder (highs only in 40s and low 50s).
Next weekend very chilly, snow line will be down almost to the valleys and precip about 0.5 to 2.0 inches of rain or snow equivalent (5 to 20 inches) on slopes. There may even be snowflakes or sleet mixing in at lowest elevations. This would probably not put a lot of stress on reservoirs, so it’s basically a situation of getting through Monday and Tuesday, because the week after this cold weekend (25th-26th) does not look overly wet, temperatures still rather cool for time of year.
Let’s hope these reservoirs can handle the stress of Monday-Tuesday, then I would think the crisis will be manageable from then on, if these model charts are accurate.
Need to remove all the dams in California and let all that water flow back to the sea like nature intended.
Sarc/
Facts are political.
If the RATS can figure out a way to raise taxes, the drought will still not be over.
Well, the rain won’t stop until about Wednesday. That’s four more days.
https://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=Sacramento%2C+CA
I know large portions of the Valley are at risk.
It all depends on how much rain and how warm it is.
There’s 30ft of snow on the ground in the Sierras. If the snow level goes up to 7,000+ feet and there’s a lot of rain, we’ll have a mess.
Everywhere, at the same time.
That California drought map will be considerably different next week. And probably again the week after.
They are wasting all that water?!?!?!
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