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03-29-2015, 04:44 PM #1
california snowpack 8% of normal,beats 1977 as the worst
picador
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03-31-2015, 11:39 AM #2
1 year of water left, but no one seems to notice. Too bad its not ebola or ISIS related.
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03-31-2015, 11:46 AM #3Registered User
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03-31-2015, 02:35 PM #4
Except, that's not, literally, true. If it was, people would be leaving the state in droves. Jay Famiglietti, the guy who said we have a year of water left, clarified that he wasn't speaking literally. Rather he meant we have a year of water existing currently in state reservoirs. That doesn't include groundwater--of which we have millions and millions of acre-feet--and it doesn't include what may or may not fall from the sky in the next year.
If you want the non-hyperbolic version, read this: http://californiawaterblog.com/2015/...015-a-preview/
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03-31-2015, 03:35 PM #5
From what I've read, they are in the hills. So, yeah, running the wrong way.
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04-01-2015, 04:03 PM #6
Not just Cali .. the whole West has had a dismal snow year (except for our little bit of Colorado, which is about "average").
http://cires1.colorado.edu/~aslater/SNOW/march2015.html
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http://cires1.colorado.edu/~aslater/...ercentage.html
In some regions (e.g. Stevens Pass, Washington), winter precip has not been all that low; the difference is that rain rather than snow has fallen... though this still means there's a shift in the hydrograph.
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04-01-2015, 04:20 PM #7CALIFORNIA SNOWPACK 8% OF NORMAL,BEATS 1977 AS THE WORST
Worst what?The Sheriff is near!
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04-02-2015, 10:16 AM #8dickhead
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04-02-2015, 10:17 AM #9dickhead
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04-02-2015, 04:04 PM #10
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04-03-2015, 08:46 AM #11Registered User
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04-03-2015, 09:10 AM #12Registered User
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04-05-2015, 11:23 PM #13
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05-13-2015, 01:16 PM #14
I always have to chuckle when people refer to the relatively short history of weather data collection in asserting that it might not really indicate whether the climate might be shifting away from supporting human life ... As though earth's climate has been conducive to supporting human life for most of it's history, or as though there were even one other example of a planet's climate that did.
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05-13-2015, 03:59 PM #15
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05-13-2015, 06:11 PM #16
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05-13-2015, 06:18 PM #17
8%? Vibes.
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12-10-2015, 04:51 PM #18Registered User
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grass is the new powder
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12-10-2015, 06:21 PM #19
Grass can't grow without water.
I'm betting big on sand skiing...
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12-11-2015, 09:49 AM #20
I thought Tahoe was doing well... based on occasionally glancing at a headline. Weren't they just struggling with too much rain and mudslides in outside of LA?
What's going on out there?
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12-11-2015, 10:24 AM #21
Reasonably well. At least compared to recent years. El Nino supposedly going to kick into high gear in the next several weeks.
LA mudslides were a one-off hard, and fast storm a month or two back. They haven't actually gotten much down there yet.
But the OP was posting about last year anyway.
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04-23-2016, 01:53 AM #22Registered User
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Turns out it was just an average year in the end (maybe slightly above average with these April storms). Still, after the last few years I am very happy with this 'average year'. Seems like mother nature also took into account the 5-day work week with many of the storms coming in conveniently on Friday night.
Tried to post a link to opensnow but I am not allowed to as a new member.
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10-18-2016, 08:59 AM #23Registered User
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Glaciers in California
The past few years going backpacking in the Sierras have shown how much the drought and the general reduction in snowfall as well as warmer temps are affecting the few remaining glaciers in the Sierras.
You can see the moraine stretching for a mile on the Palisade Glacier (the largest in the Sierras)
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02-17-2017, 05:53 PM #24Registered User
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What a difference two years makes! Thankfully, for Cali, last year wasn't bad, and this year is off the charts good, in fact too good for some like Oroville residents.
The same link now shows the snowpack in the southern Sierras at 198% of normal! http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/snowapp/sweq.action
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02-24-2017, 04:27 PM #25Banned
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Nice. Too bad the fucksticks in CA will remove water restrictions and continue wasting water washing cars, overwatering lawns and otherwise blow through the surplus.
So wish we could shut off the CO River until they learn.
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