You are right it has been twenty years since I read it. The title fits the narrative. A whole lot of going up and down mountains. Pretty dry reading if I remember.
Still, my point is there was a lot of surface water throughout California early on. Especially if you believe the maps the greenies use to show how much wetland has been “lost”
The pacific is the great provider of moisture. The coastal ranges may be damp but extract little in my opinion. I absolutly love Sierra thunderstorms when they happen.
More in the Sacramento Valley than the San Joaquin. Tulare Lake was usually a lot smaller than Brewer's observations. The whole region had been greatly affected by the flood.
The pacific is the great provider of moisture.
Not directly. During those summer Sierra thunderstorms, a large fraction of that moisture derived from vegetative transpiration, having hit the ground months before. The reason the thunderstorms are in the mountains is that the moisture laden drift off the Valley floor is pushed higher in elevation to cool. Else, there would be no more clouds than across the Valley itself. You are mistaken.
Damp in Summer I mean. inter is another thing alltogether.
Damp in Summer I mean. winter is another thing alltogether.