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Good News! It's Snowing!
Americanthinker.com ^ | 1/12/2022 | Jeffery Folks

Posted on 01/12/2022 9:04:00 AM PST by rktman

Recently, Molly Taft at Gizmodo proclaimed, "California's Epic Snowstorms Are Great News." Great news, indeed, with snowfall running some 150% above normal for the Sierra Nevadas, or "200% of average for snow water equivalent."

For years, climate alarmists bemoaned the multiyear drought that, they insisted, would utterly "destroy" California. The drought, they wrote, was the product of global warming and was thus more or less permanent. Say goodbye to California agriculture; life in California cities; and, eventually, life on Earth.

Those claims were false, as this year's massive Sierra snow-pack shows. When the snow melts in the spring, that water will fill the reservoirs, irrigate the crops, and help fulfill the needs of California cities. Even before the strong start to this year's snowfall, the 2012โ€“2016 drought had begun to abate. If the snowfall continues through the spring, drought conditions will abate in much of the state.

That's not good enough for environmentalists, who respond that it will take more than one snowfall to end drought conditions, which may be true, and who predict that by 2050, there may be successive years with no snow-pack at all โ€” which seems like wild speculation.

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Yeah, December in the I-80 corridor in the Reno to Colfax and Tahoe area was pretty good. Twenty plus feet at the Donner Pass measuring station. Local forecasters are not seeing much of anything for the rest of January though. So, guess we better not count are snowflakes just yet. Although, we still have snow in our yard but it's going away pretty quick now. Still plenty in the mountains.
1 posted on 01/12/2022 9:04:00 AM PST by rktman
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Good news for California. If only their state government wasn’t a cesspool of corruption for all that springs to life in the state.


2 posted on 01/12/2022 9:08:39 AM PST by Bayard
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Don’t count your chickens...Rumor has it Newsome has directed all trucks in the state to drive to the mountains, load up all the snow, and dump it into the Ocean.


3 posted on 01/12/2022 9:10:47 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (Let's go Brandon)
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Does CA have the reservoir capacity to take advantage of heavy snowfall? I thought I read where most of the heavy snow melt will just run into the ocean.


4 posted on 01/12/2022 9:11:59 AM PST by Roadrunner383 (;)
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Every state and every country has weather cycles. California seems to be on the extreme end of the feast or famine weather cycle. Everyone with four functional brain cells can figure that out.


5 posted on 01/12/2022 9:12:28 AM PST by oldvirginian (So if a cow doesnโ€™t produce milk, is it a milk dud or an udder failure?)
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Well they do dump millions of gallons into the ocean every spring so there is that.


6 posted on 01/12/2022 9:13:03 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? ๐Ÿ˜•)
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The pacific ocean will be happy to get all that fresh water released for the delta smelt


7 posted on 01/12/2022 9:13:36 AM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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Silly.

That only means they'll have floods and mudslides in the spring, and they'll demand a couple of hundred billion from Brandon to repair the damage.

8 posted on 01/12/2022 9:15:17 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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(Waits patiently for the spring melt inducing flooding, when we’ll be told that the FLOODING is all because of climate change).


9 posted on 01/12/2022 9:17:04 AM PST by FrankRizzo890
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That’s what I hear.


10 posted on 01/12/2022 9:17:07 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (Let's go Brandon)
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To: Steely Tom

Floods and mudslides caused by climate change.


11 posted on 01/12/2022 9:18:18 AM PST by webheart (I thought I was helping by getting vaccinated but they say I didnโ€™t help at all. )
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When they proclaim man-made climate change from a single season, they are confusing weather with climate.

Don’t let them get away with that.


12 posted on 01/12/2022 9:41:20 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (We are being played by forces most do not understand)
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Cali brother’s up at Mammoth every other day skiing. Skiing here in New England is like downhill skating.


13 posted on 01/12/2022 9:43:21 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Roadrunner383

Most reservoirs are pretty low right now. They can take whatever snow melt there is now and much more.


14 posted on 01/12/2022 9:43:35 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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Last I heard, the Thwaits glacier in Antarctica is going to
collapse (on a Wednesday) and cause a tsunami miles high
and that along with all of the glacial melt water will
flood the entire planet and end all life on Earth.
I 'Truly' believe this will happen. /s

I never cared much for Wednesdays anyhow.


15 posted on 01/12/2022 9:53:32 AM PST by GaltAdonis (As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide. Abe Lincoln)
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increased snowfall is due to globull warming!


16 posted on 01/12/2022 9:54:25 AM PST by Pxzftrnqfrn
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"Even before the strong start to this year's snowfall, the 2012โ€“2016 drought had begun to abate"

Uh, does this guy know about Januburied, just 5 years ago?

That winter and the subsequent winters up through 2019 filled the reservoirs, supposedly with enough to last 5 years.

The drought abated a long time ago, and the only thing that brought it back was the water releases.

It's snowing and raining as much or more then it ever did in California.

17 posted on 01/12/2022 9:59:32 AM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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Yeah, I remember the Oroville dam spewing water where it wasn’t supposed to be spewing it.


18 posted on 01/12/2022 10:04:39 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? ๐Ÿ˜•)
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Lake Meade has been very low for a long time
is there a chance this year will help?


19 posted on 01/12/2022 10:09:50 AM PST by Zenjitsuman (f)
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Depends on how much snow the get in Colorado and Utah. The snow we get up here goes to Tahoe and Pyramid lake and various reservoirs in Cali. And a LOT gets dumped into the Pacific by the water masters in Cali.


20 posted on 01/12/2022 10:12:10 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? ๐Ÿ˜•)
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