Posted on 01/18/2023 1:00:55 PM PST by nickcarraway
Northern California and the San Francisco Bay Area have seen a parade of storms since last December, and the rainfall totals are beginning to add up as the local reservoirs fill up.
The National Weather Service said Monday morning that its gauge at the San Francisco International Airport had recorded 20.30 inches since Oct. 1, surpassing the average for a water year, the 12-month period running from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30. This site, on average, records 19.64 inches in a water year.
Water managers use the water year, which follows the water cycle starting in the rainy season and running through spring and summer when the snowpack melts and its runoff flows into reservoirs and streams.
The weather service's gauge in downtown San Francisco is already nearing the annual average, which is 22.89 inches from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30. As of Jan. 16, the site has picked up 21.75 inches since Oct. 1, 2022, which is 205% of normal to date. Last year, at this time, the location had measured 16.84 inches.
On the peninsula, a site in Redwood City has recorded 21.06 inches since Oct. 1, picking up 252% of the average total rainfall to date. To the north, Santa Rosa has measured 25.08 inches of rain, bringing in 158% of normal to date for the water year.
The Bay Area has received the majority of its rain this season since Dec. 26. Downtown San Francisco, for example, measured 17 inches between Dec. 26 and Jan. 16, making it the fifth-wettest 21-day period in recorded history.
All of this weather has replenished local reservoirs. In the Santa Clara Valley Water District, four out of 10 reservoirs were full and spilling into waterways, said Matt Keller, a spokesperson for the district. Coyote Reservoir is 111% full, Uvas is
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It’s a lot like the storms of 1977/1978.
local reservoirs are starting to fill up?
uh oh....
Something quick and drastic has to be done soon.
That cannot stand!
Mother Nature has a way of healing herself. It looks like she’s irrigating a wound.
The San Francisco sidewalks haven’t been this clean in years...
Sometimes it’s rainy...sometimes it’s not. It’s called weather...not global warming.
Now if someone hands the homeless some soap, washrag and a towel that city can really get a good clean-up!
“Someday A Rain Will Come And Wash All The Scum Off The Streets” | Taxi Driver
But this time it is global climate change.
The Santa Clara County Water District has ten reservoirs. They’re small: Anderson holds 89,000 acre feet; Lexington 19,000. The rest fall off sharply with several less than 1,000. It’s supposed to turn rainy again in about 10 days, though not as much. The reservoirs are what they’ve got by way of flood control. Another good bout and San Jose and the other cities could have a very serious flooding problem on their hands
A lot of rain? Try 19 inches in 8 hours...Marble Falls Rain Bomb - June 21, 2007. https://youtu.be/cNZEubyY1uo
As you well know, the thing about rainfall in California is that God can turn it on and off with the flip of his Water Switch. Many years start out encouraging and we have had deluges by Christmas, then God turns the water off. Instead of ending in April or May, the rains end by January 1.
Let’s pray that God keeps the switch on until May this year.
Are you familiar with the Great San Francisco Flood of 1862?
It rained for the entire month of January.
40 inches of rain fell on the San Francisco Bay Area and the mountains to the east.
The mountain rain melted huge amounts of snow, and every river flooded.
No photographs at that time, but many drawings.
SF residents paddled around the streets in boats for several weeks.
The economic damage was horrifying. Farms completely destroyed, farm animals drowned, people drowning and starving to death.
And, at the same moment, on the USA east coast, a million Americans trying to kill each other in the Civil War!
Based on the California government's policies, I am not sure how much that will help the water for people.
Mother nature is making up for the recent droughts in California. She promises rain, but does nor promise it is always when you want it.
The upcoming spring salmon and smelt runs will require the spilling of the water to facilitate these fish swimming to their historic spawning grounds. By June, all of the water will be gone. Mark my words.
Prepare yourself for the onslaught of news reports that this excessive rain fall will have caused extreme growth in range grasses and forest underbrush, which will increase the fuel load for the upcoming fire season.
Too much rain produces extreme fire conditions. Too dry, produces extreme fire conditions.
I remember that winter. I was working in the woods around Gold Beach, OR, and between October first and Christmas it rained six feet. I was living in a little house with a tin roof, and the noise of the rain practically never stopped.
I’m hoping Alviso floods again. (So. SJ on the bay)
LOTS of very expensive housing and commercial there now.
The thieving county commissioners would not get away with smirking and denying blame as they did last time.
I wonder if they ever put any of the previously misappropriated flood control funds back to their proper use?
I will never forget or forgive the flood gates being rusted shut from lack of maintenance.
21.06 inches. Wow. That is double the yearly totals. Of course, the non-Christians politicians who think they know better than God the Father will continue to promote the drought myth.
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