Is it fair to say that California’s reservoirs are not in as bad of shape as lake Meade and lake powell along the colorado. My understanding is that it would take four or five very wet years to refill those reservoirs.
Would you say that unlike powell and meade—shasta and oroville could refill with just a month or two of rains as are projected currently through the jan 10
I would agree with that. Powell and Meade together have capacity of 56M acre feet, whereas Shasta and Oroville only total 8M. The watershed of the former is vastly larger, but also largely arid. The short answer is that I think even average rain and snow through the end of the season after the upcoming series could very well fill Oroville in particular, but perhaps Shasta as well