Posted on 03/04/2024 7:04:19 PM PST by Mariner
After a multi-day blizzard dropped 6 to 11 feet of snow across the Sierra Nevada, California’s snowpack has surged to above normal for the first time this year.
State data updated Monday morning shows the snowpack at 104% of normal for this time of year. It’s a stunning change from just two months ago, when the state snowpack stood at a paltry 25% of normal on Jan. 2.
The snowpack was highest relative to historical averages in the Northern Sierra, where it stood at 111% of normal. Last weekend’s storm buried Lake Tahoe to the point of closing ski resorts. The Northern and Central Sierra was hit hardest, particularly along Interstate 80 at Donner Summit (which reopened Monday morning after a three-day closure). Caltrans measured 9.5 feet of snow in Soda Springs, with 10.5 feet at Sugar Bowl.
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And winds that exceed 100mph, gust over 150mph at the crest.
That ladies and gentlemen is a blizzard.
Too bad no dams, no reservoirs or ability to refill the water table.
But it’s nice to see.
RIP Klamath.
CA has more acre feet of water behind dams than all the other states, by far. Not even close.
And yet the water management is the worst.
Just not enough of them.
That impounded water is reserved for the Pacific Ocean basin water shed.
But Newsom said it’s a forever drought.
So this can’t be true.
Forget it, Jake, it’s Chinatown.
You mean Newscum, don’t you?
Biggest drought in 12,000 years!
Never been anything like it!
California will never have a normal water year ever again!
Our kids will never know rain or snow!
We must spend trillions on climate change!
Eat bugs!
Within a few years they’ll be declaring a drought again.
Dateline 2026: CA Pols: Omg! Drought! Bad drought, climate change, etc, etc.. Just build the water storage promised in 2014’s $3 billion “Prop. 1”!
Yup. They’ll be set for water for another 5 years until the corrupt government decides to dump that into the ocean as well.
This year, they’ll be creating one when they waste MORE water.
The best way is to get that water and replenish the water table underground. My cousin is working on that but he says the push back from Sacto is an environmental hell scape of bureaucracy.
That plan could work well but I don’t know much more than the above paragraph to comment further.
They’re dumping water like crazy to maintain flood control. All major reservoirs will fill again this year. If the Auburn Dam had not been canceled, and if Sites Reservoir had been built after the voters authorized it 10 years ago, between them they’d have another 5 million acre feet, nominally enough for 20 million people for a year
https://cdec.water.ca.gov/resapp/RescondMain
Oh that’s nothing, first California needs to provide the promised high speed train…..
the California High-Speed Rail Authority to create a plan to present to the voters for approval. In 2008, voters approved Proposition 1A, which laid out a route connecting the state's major population centers, authorized bonds for initial funding, and established other requirements. Among these, it required nonstop trains travel between San Francisco and Los Angeles – about 350 miles (560 km) apart by air – in no more than 2 hours and 40 minutes.
Don’t worry be happy. In the Spring when it melts, California will be happy to let it all run off into the ocean so the fish will be happy and safe. Farmers not so much.
newscum is illagetimate scum whocheated the recal to stay in office
visual evidence that newscum recall was scammed .
Let My People Go
https://rumble.com/v4h3s20-free-worldwide-release-let-my-people-go-by-dr.-david-clements.html
So, they went from a 75% deficit to a 10% surplus - you know what that means, because of “climate change”, WE’RE DOOMED!
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