Posted on 02/01/2017 12:24:05 PM PST by Mariner
After a month of huge blizzards and “atmospheric river” storms, the Sierra Nevada snowpack — source of a third of California’s drinking water — is 177 percent of the historic average, the biggest in more than two decades.
The last time there was this much snow on Feb. 1 in the Sierra was in 1995. Pete Wilson was California’s governor, “Seinfeld” was the top-rated show on television and Steve Young had just led the 49ers to a blowout win in Super Bowl XXIX.
In a breathtaking shift for a state that had been mired in five years of punishing drought, 25 feet of new snow has fallen on Heavenly ski resort in South Lake Tahoe since New Year’s Day. Freeways and schools across the Sierra have been closed at times, and firefighters are having trouble finding fire hydrants.
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The Sierras are buried.
But Jerry the Nut will not declare the drought over. He like the fact that is allow him to control the distribution of water resources in CA without oversight.
F’n global warming÷!
Yup
Ski areas calling it Januburied
Jerry Geezer foaming at the mouth, can’t explain all the rain
But...but....climate change! Global Warming! This can’t be happening!
The idiots preconceived conclusions are being destroyed by reality
In the meantime we all have fun skiing...
Need to make sure all this water gets dumped in the Sea before mid summer!
When I was a wee lad, I had a hike on the Muir Trail diverted because there was a glacier in the way. Plenty of snow the previous winter.
They will keep the water rates (taxes) high and let the money flow to the public employees unions.
Global Warming Theory Predicts More Snow. Global Warming has always predicted more snow. (We’ve always been at war with eastAsia.)
” Donner? Party of 52?”
That globull warming sticking it’s ugly head up again.
DAMNED Gore BULL warming !
You just don’t understand. Two of the key proofs of climate change are droughts and floods. Others are the presence of hot or cold temperatures as well as clouds or sunshine.
We are doomed. /s
Sounds as if there is going to be a lot of homes careening down the hills this spring
^^^ This. Plus, they'll still make Californian's lawns and bushes die.
And the most threatening aspect of CLIMATE CHANGE is when the climate doesn’t actually change that much, when it pretty much stays the same for a long time.
That’s when you know CLIMATE CHANGE is really deadly!
Egads, i used to be a snowcat mechanic at the upper elevation shop there!
You forgot Oxygen and Nitrogen and CO2.
Same dem who emphatically said the california drought was caused by global warming now sais the undrought is also caused by global warming
Same dem who emphatically said the california drought was caused by global warming now sais the undrought is also caused by global warming
Same dem who emphatically said the california drought was caused by global warming now sais the undrought is also caused by global warming
...because I don't think that California has the reservoir space to store the run-off. Most of it's going out into the Pacific ...
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