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California snowpack soars to nearly 200% of normal
ktla ^ | : Jan 9, 2023 / 10:09 AM PST | Marc Sternfield

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...


TOPICS: Weather
KEYWORDS: california; coloradoriver; drought; lakemead; lakepowell; megadrought; snow; snowmelt; snowpack; water; watersupply
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To: BenLurkin

if that is too much for you, we would be happy to take some of that from you - Colorado


21 posted on 01/09/2023 12:15:26 PM PST by taxcontrol (The choice is clear - either live as a slave on your knees or die as a free citizen on your feet.)
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To: BenLurkin

The problem we have in California is the jackasses running it. We have been pummeled with storm after storm these past few weeks. However, with the lack of storage facilities (reservoirs), LOTS of water is wasted as it flows out to the bay and ocean.


22 posted on 01/09/2023 12:15:48 PM PST by Kevin in California (EP)
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To: BenLurkin

Reservoirs are only part of the solution, also need desalination plants to pump clean ocean water back up slope to higher altitude reservoirs.


23 posted on 01/09/2023 12:17:36 PM PST by taxcontrol (The choice is clear - either live as a slave on your knees or die as a free citizen on your feet.)
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To: rfp1234
In the 1990s, the Climate Cretins claimed that by now there would be ZERO snow in the Sierra Nevada... <<

in the 70s the Climate Cretins claimed that by now there would be a glacier covering 1/2 of the US .../s

24 posted on 01/09/2023 12:17:43 PM PST by M-cubed (The MSM is now the 4th Branch of Government.....)
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To: SaxxonWoods

The Book of Proverbs says the search for wisdom is like the search for gold. Your post is such a nugget.


25 posted on 01/09/2023 12:18:01 PM PST by EliRoom8
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To: BenLurkin

so the govenor says that climate change is the cause of all the rain storms. does that mean that climate change is a good thing?


26 posted on 01/09/2023 12:20:05 PM PST by Son-Joshua ( )
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To: BenLurkin

Because the state has kicked the can down the street with regards to earthquake reinforcement of reservoir dams, the state tends to release water to reduce pressure on the dams. The largest reservoir in Santa Clara County, Anderson, is at a seriously reduced maximum level while they *finally* work on earthquake upgrades for it’s dam.


27 posted on 01/09/2023 12:21:53 PM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: airborne
We need to get back to where the climate NEVER CHANGED..

Why aren't the scientist looking into that? ..../s

28 posted on 01/09/2023 12:23:05 PM PST by M-cubed (The MSM is now the 4th Branch of Government.....)
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To: Kevin in California
However, with the lack of storage facilities (reservoirs) ...

That probably should be restated as "the lack of any *new* storage facilities in several decades".

29 posted on 01/09/2023 12:23:24 PM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: BenLurkin

Just search the phrase “California dam removal” to know that they have no intention of ‘saving’ any snowmelt. Also, there is a very large body of water alongside the western side of Kalifornia. Just a few desalination plants, and Kalifornia could export water, just like Israel has done. Israel is at the forefront of desalination; they have enough fresh drinking water to export it to other countries.

Kalifornia is the epitome of a Marxist mentality. Create shortages, ESPECIALLY of essential items. Trees and snail darters are in crisis, as long as humans remain alive. A crisis (democRAT caused or not) is a terrible thing to waste.


30 posted on 01/09/2023 12:24:41 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: BenLurkin
Newsom and his cronies will find ways to squander this in order to perpetuate the public’s hardships.

Disneyland needs to keep their new politically correct log ride flowing.

-PJ

31 posted on 01/09/2023 12:30:23 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: BenLurkin

Check the Christmas season of 1955 in the Bay Area of California. Same thing, before flood control however.


32 posted on 01/09/2023 12:31:35 PM PST by TrumpisRight (It is --> President Trump <--)
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To: BenLurkin

Empty reservoirs = climate change
Full reservoirs = climate change


33 posted on 01/09/2023 12:32:10 PM PST by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: coon2000

You will be disappointed. They will let even more water out into the ocean just like they have for the last 10 plus years.

They don’t want water. They want to control a limited supply of water.


34 posted on 01/09/2023 12:34:41 PM PST by volunbeer (We are living 2nd Thessalonians)
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To: BenLurkin
For Calif....this really isn't new.

I was born there...but left in 97-98.....Glad I left..as the State was going in the tank then.

I have many stories........

35 posted on 01/09/2023 12:34:52 PM PST by Osage Orange
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To: eyeamok
Empty?!?!?

I'll take your bet.

36 posted on 01/09/2023 12:36:07 PM PST by Osage Orange
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To: Kevin in California

Well you have to let the grunion run.


37 posted on 01/09/2023 12:38:41 PM PST by Osage Orange
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To: BenLurkin

That’s great! But I think Feds need to take over water management out west.

California has their heads to far up their guacamole toast arses to manage it.


38 posted on 01/09/2023 12:40:48 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: coon2000

Oroville dam is filling fast!
https://oroville.lakesonline.com/Level/


39 posted on 01/09/2023 12:44:30 PM PST by Tom Tetroxide
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To: CFW

They love batteries.

Too bad that most of the public does not understand that the largest battery in America is Lake Roosevelt. Why? Because much of that water goes through a series of dams that generate massive amounts of electricity with no loss of water and no pollution.

They love salmon. I love salmon. Too bad that most of the public does not understand how successful the fish ladder systems and hatcheries have been in the Pacific Northwest.

The loss of salmon is coming from commercial fishing and much of that is China who does not obey rules. The US and China have throttled their commercial fishing and China has filled the void since China wiped out their own fish stocks in territorial waters.

It’s China - not the dams. The new fish ladders are amazingly effective where they take the strongest fish and pump them up and over the dam.

Dams increase animal and aquatic activity in addition to agricultural activity. We should have more dams - not less.


40 posted on 01/09/2023 12:45:37 PM PST by volunbeer (We are living 2nd Thessalonians)
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