02/17/2017 11:00 860.07 2945720 79823 35530 92287 35.84 13.4
02/17/2017 12:00 859.75 2941283 79860 34819 92498 35.88 13.4
02/17/2017 13:00 859.30 2935052 79574 14683 92531 35.92 13.4
The Wx radar looked like there was a break between successive bands of rain, so maybe so.
Typo ?
Hard to imagine a 20k reduction in an hour.
It’s related to real time rainfall, but it’s also related to water releases upstream. I’m with TVA - we have a river system and there is a timing factor to releasing water upstream and when it arrives at the next dam down the river. For example (and this is purely hypothetical, since I don’t have raw numbers in front of me), if TVA releases 100,000 cubic feet from, say, Guntersville Dam, it will be maybe 3 or 4 hours before that increased flow reaches the next dam downstream.
So in this case, they may have released water hours ago and that water got to Oroville and has since backed off because that particular volume of release has terminated. The number will go up and down, but on average, will be higher through and after the rain period.
WTH??
Is that in prep for cutting power?
Inflow at 33292:
02/17/2017 15:00 858.78 2927864 75127 33292 87481 36.12 13.4