Today we are wishing the rain would stop.
Drought and climate change. Yet no mention of the unprecedented pull of water from these reservours.
We’re all gonna die of thirst?
Maybe some of the will slop over.
US west coast braces for ‘atmospheric river’ as huge storm brews
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4006252/posts
“It also puts more weight on the 22-year drought that has been ongoing since 2000”
In 1300 AD that area had a 25 year drought.
And in the 1920s, the San Juan River dried up. It also had a massive drought in the fall and winter of 1976-77.
It is called THE GREAT AMERICAN DESERT for a reason.
Wasn’t it like 3 winter seasons ago that California received near 130% of its annual snowpack averages? The lunatics in Sacto should be constructing new reservoirs instead of costly trains to nowhere.
In 2003 the drought took the Colorado down low in the headwaters area in Grand County. Granby Reservoir, the big one, was low and we were told we would never see it full again in our lifetimes by the experts. It filled several times over the next few years, we had a 100 year-level high runoff around 2012, followed by a 500 year runoff. The Colorado ran 5,100 cfs behind my house, which was quite impressive. I’ve moved further west now, so won’t see it next spring. The strange weather that ate the runoff recently was mentioned in the article. The predictions of 2003 didn’t turn out to be as dire as expected so we’ll see how things go from here. Man can’t change what’s happening, that’s why we adapted earlier by building more water storage.
Now the government thinks it can control climate by torturing citizens. I’m becoming more libertarian as time goes on and govt becomes more onerous.
“And this crisis is exacerbating inequalities that intersect with gender, race, ethnicity and economic security.”
What utter Bull$hit.
Somebody tell California to use their damn dams and forget about pretending to save some damn fish.
Reservoirs are low because the Aholes in Gov’mt took the treehuggers’ $$ and agreed to not build any water storage in last 40 years. So, what reservoirs we have are drained by the doubling of population in the same time period.
Drought has nothing to do with this.
For starters, don't believe any projection from the government. They rely on politics, not data. This is particularly true for climate related items.
Second, the climate in the region discussed here is highly influenced by Pacific Ocean weather patterns. This means el Nino, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), and other oscillations are important. These change the weather cyclically. The PDO lasts 60-70 years. Dropping data from the '80s is a mistake (or malfeasance).
Easy solution. Just have the 2 million new illegals build new dams.