Posted on 10/14/2021 9:42:41 AM PDT by rktman
There’s a chance the Bay Area could see above-normal rainfall this month that would slightly improve drought conditions and potentially put an end to the region’s wildfire season, according to meteorologists.
A storm system over the northeastern Pacific Ocean could bring as much as 2 inches of rain from the Bay Area up to Redding from Oct. 20-24.
The heavy rainfall would be “possible near-record-breaking precipitation for late October,” according to the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center.
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Mudslide Slim. And the blue horizon
Have already had lots of early snow in the Wasatch and Rockies.
Storm gate is open, look at the pressure charts!
This is going to deeply sadden my climate change hysterical neighbors who were predicting no rain this winter. But undoubtedly, they’ll repeat the mantra...”it’s weather, not climate!”.
That always fixes everything.
I don’t think most Californians pray for anything or it wouldn’t be the toilet it is.
Very little water storage in the Bay Area. 55% of the water storage in the South Bay is in Anderson Reservoir, but it’s at a reduced level due to earthquake risks and (finally!) retrofitting repairs. Supposed to take 10? years to finish, and it should have been started after the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989!
In Utah, regarding water, every year the govt says one of two things:
1- There isn’t enough snowfall, we need to raise water rates.
2- There was too much snowfall, we need to raise water rates.
And it will pour into the sea.
Those californians are just smarter than the rest of us.
Now clean the gd underbrush...
I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain. Now we need some snow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPOdspUHKms
Oh, they pray. To Moloch. Baby sacrifices included.
“clean the gd underbrush”
I think you nailed it my friend. No prescription burns lead to wild fires then when the vegetation is all gone, there because of that there are no root systems left to hold the soil together...then the rain comes along and you get the mudslides.
Always thought that was a vicious cycle created by the tree huggers not wanting to do control burn.
It is interesting how Phoenix has had more rain since May than its had in 12 years.
Exactly!
For sure the problem in San Diego.
It all just runs to the Ocean.
How dare you! The poor Tahinian dancing bunnies and the Nurovian leaping lemurs live in that brush. If you clear it out the bunnies and leaping lemurs will have no homes. And they will have to go on welfare, which would strain an already burdened welfare system! I guess we could register them all to vote Democratic, so there is that upside. But on principle, we should leave the brush alone!
Pretty much the pattern in the Bay Area. Lose trees, shrubs, and ground cover due to droughts and wildfires. Follow that up with a heavy rain season, and there are mudslides everywhere in the coastal and east bay hills.
At least the LONG Calaveras Reservoir project got finished. Now on to Anderson. It’s been at reduced level for SO long — utterly ridiculous.
Yep. Also, by not clearing the brush and deadwood for long periods the wildfires burn extremely hot, which may sterilize the soil down some 18 inches (a la Yosemite fire a while back). Seeds that require the heat of a fire to germinate are cooked to a crisp and the worms that serve to aerate the soil are fried completely. It may take many years for the forest to recover after such a fire.
Green weenies: "We had to destroy the forest in order to save it."
Dixie fire ended up just shy of a million acres. 94% contained and this in the daily briefings:
“An estimated $1 Billion dollars of timber has been destroyed. Substantial losses of private and public timberlands have released decades of sequestered carbon, releasing it into the atmosphere with uncalculatable impacts to green house gas accumulations.”
Oh noes! Yup, we all gonna die. “Uncalculatable”. Guess that means there was a lot?
Correct me if I’m wrong on any of the following points but my understanding was that Oroville Dam was at full capacity and threatening to overflow into the spillways two years ago but the powers-that-be in California decided to drain it to ‘save’ the delta smelt. I’ve read (again not sure) that the delta smelt is an invasive species and basically a bait fish.
—yep-—as I sarcastically tell my western Colorado friends, “may the upper Colorado River area have a record winter”—Nevada, Arizona and California need the water”—
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