Pacific moisture gets wrung out as the weather lifts over the Sierra mountains so it falls mostly on the western side.
Uh, I’m really confused. Was I dreaming when this past winter saw the most rainfall in the western states than in a decade? Mammoth Mountain ski resort had so much snow that they didn’t shut down the lifts until July 4th. The Sierra Mountains feed much of the Colorado River.
The Sierras do not feed the Colorado River. They feed the Central Valley of California on the long sloping west side. On the short vertical east side they feed the Owens Valley and the Los Angeles Aqueduct but mostly drain into the Great Basin, which has no outlet.
Actually the Sierra Nevadas supply little to the Colorado River drainage. Look at the Kern River draining much of the southern high Sierras. It comes south from the mountains and then west. The Owens Valley to its east still all famously goes to LA.
The Colorado starts North of Rocky Mountain NP and collects most of western Rockies drainage before heading to Lake Powell.
I was thinking the same thing.
What drought are these moonbats talking about?
I also thought there was record rain this past winter in California and other western states.
Pacific moisture gets wrung out as the weather lifts over the Sierra mountains so it falls mostly on the western side.
Mostly Rockies I think.
I was there in April and the lake appeared to be substantially up from where it was.