Posted on 02/04/2025 1:52:52 PM PST by cuz1961
...Lake Shasta waters lapped 30 feet from its top after an atmospheric river dropped more than 8 inches of rain in the Redding area since last Friday — and a new storm is expected to bring more rain to the region... ...The lake has gone up nearly 10 feet since last Friday, Jan. 31.
...two more storms — the first of which started Monday — could drop another 3.5 inches for rain by Friday, the weather service forecasted....
(Excerpt) Read more at redding.com ...
More free water from God for Newsom to waste.
We have to get these rivers out of the sky.
After a middling start we may be moving toward a strong close to the wet season. After back to back wet winters before now, all the major reservoirs are in excellent shape. Shasta, largest reservoir in the state, holds 4.5
Million acre feet, nominally enough water for 18 million people
https://cdec.water.ca.gov/resapp/RescondMain
It sounds skerrier than Jet Stream or Hawaiian Express. Makes you believe Climate Change is real.
Will it go to the ocean, or to where they need it?
Where the greenies want it to go, or where the people need it.
Y’all see the brown line between the water and the tree line?
I have seen it much worse.
Most places water goes up to the tree line.
Shasta is not full.
Democrats that run CA are full of it!
Lake Shasta water level
https://shasta.uslakes.info/Level/
Dude I busted out laughing in the restaurant. Thanks.
….or bomb cyclone.
Our weatherrman was laughing at the atmospheric river tag.
Haha, that’s another favorite!
Current Oroville stats
https://cdec.water.ca.gov/dynamicapp/QueryF?s=oro
The spillway at Orville has been opened for flood control.
Current Shasta stats.
https://cdec.water.ca.gov/dynamicapp/QueryF?s=sha
It’s not a jet stream and Hawaiian Express is a DHX freight forwarder.
Just continuing a trend in sensationalist headlines and terms to generate click revenue.
Nuisance and his gang of morons already dismantled several dams on the Klamath River, for ‘environmental justice’ or some similar crap.
He’s probably a weather reader and not a meteorologist.
More important maybe is the north state is nice and damp. Not much fire risk till next autumn probably.
Atmospheric river. It’s called rain.
Yes, and don't forget Pineapple Express!
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