Posted on 02/01/2023 6:16:45 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The snowpack in the Sierra Nevada mountains in California is at the highest level since 1995, thanks to a series of “atmospheric river” storms at the new year, and another this week, holding hopes for ending the drought. As Breitbart News has noted, California’s mountainous region has been the great beneficiary of the storms that caused floods in the Central Valley and coastal cities, while dumping huge amounts of snow at high elevations.
The storms come after three years of extreme drought, which meteorologists said would last through a third winter, thanks to a pronounced La Niña effect, which typically brings dry weather to the California coast.
But one storm in the fall was followed in December by a barrage of storms that left California’s ski resorts with the deepest snow in the nation in some places. And now the snowpack is the highest it has been in 30 years.
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I weathered a Nor’easter in Maine in 1968. Wind chill was 60 below. Nobody ever called it a “bomb” anything.
Watch out, Groundhog day is coming. The Groundhog Day gale was a severe winter storm that hit the Northeastern United States and southeastern Canada on February 2 (Groundhog Day), 1976. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundhog_Day_gale_of_1976
The spring thaw will see the rivers full of water for farmers and ranchers and the public. It will run past dams destroyed by Governor Newsom. It will run into the sea and not to farms and ranchers and the public.
The Delta Smelt must live, humans be damned.
QUICK! CREATE MORE TAXES! we must act now, there isn’t much time left
Well at least Tahoe and Pyramid lake will benefit. Maybe even Lahonton will not be a mud pit for a while. Walker lake could use a little extra too.
All that runoff is going to run directly into the Pacific Ocean because the numbnutz cleared most of the dams between the mountain range and the ocean. They no longer have the ability to retain the water like they once did.
There aren’t as many as there used to be. That runoff is headed stright to the Pacific.
The NEVADA side does save the water-—Carson River & Walker River are examples.
A few lakes are storage for irrigation for farmers for the whole year.
My hay bill this year should be decent.
The Sierra Lakes can hold the water.
Carson River & Walker River feed into reservoir lakes & are used for irrigation.
Those two terms, and a few others, have been in use for decades. I have lived in Oregon and California most of my life, and atmospheric rivers, at least, has been a common term on the west coast for at least 40 years.
Other things, like naming every winter storm, is new.
The last ‘survey’ of Delta Smelt I recall:
A week of volunteers netting such & counting ==
7 smelt in total.
Great! Now let’s dump it all into the Pacific ocean.
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