Posted on 01/09/2023 11:57:18 AM PST by BenLurkin
As of Monday, California’s snow water equivalent is 199% of normal for this date (January 9), according to the California Department of Water Resources.
The Southern Sierra is 222% of normal. The Central Sierra is 201% while the Northern Sierra/Trinity is 173%.
The snowpack outlook is also promising along the crucial Colorado River basins which feed Lake Powell and Lake Mead and is Southern California’s primary source of drinking water.
Snow water equivalent in the Rockies generally range from 117% to 176% of normal.
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Newsom and his cronies will find ways to squander this in order to perpetuate the public’s hardships.
In the 1990s, the Climate Cretins claimed that by now there would be ZERO snow in the Sierra Nevada...
I hope they save most of it. Let the reservoirs fill now, don’t let the water out for any stupid reason. Screw the Snail darter.
Wasn’t CA just complaining about a drought?
Perfect.
A responsible government would have been building more reservoirs over the last 20 years. Unfortunately, the Democrat Party is in charge.
Newsome will tax its use.
It’s similar in Colorado. When droughts break, they don’t mess around, they break big.
The California Reservoir system hold enough water for 5 years assuming NO RAIN.
I got $100 says they are empty in 2 years
In 1975 they told the Ice Age was eminent and we would all be under a mile of ICE by now
But it’s still a drought.
Always forever a drought.
I hope they save most of it. Let the reservoirs fill now, don’t let the water out for any stupid reason. Screw the Snail darter.
It’s good no matter what “they” do. Recharges the soil, the aquifers, the natural lakes and the reservoirs that are left. It’s fabulous to see it hitting all over the west. My area is at 127%.
There’s def. been a drought but these huge snowfalls will fill up many reservoirs (at least in Utah).
The drought is getting worse! Of course, it may be because California has disastrous policies regarding water.
Sadly, only rain here in Reno so far today.
They panic if there is not enough snow-pack and they complain if there is too much. Decades ago there were lakes built to catch that melting snow to save for future use, along with dams they could use to control the flow of water. I understand many of those dams have been removed, and more are scheduled to be destroyed, thus reducing the amount of water saved and used from the snow.
More fools come spring time!
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