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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When was that?
LOL! Love it!
California needs to build more reservoirs!
How much of their rainfall just goes into the Pacific?
1982 AND 1983!
1983 was deeper.
San Jose claimed 1982 as a “100 year event” and assured everyone it would not happen again.
1983 was much deeper and the flood gates were still rusted shut, no effort had been made to free them after the 1982 flood.
But the county commissioners names are engraved in Granite at the terminus of the Light Rail system.
Kleptocracy priorities!
And the morons runnung the state are letting it all go into the Pacific ocean.
Fascinating!
Thanks for the info.
Jan 16
RESERVOIR % Capacity % Average
Shasta Lake 51 82
New Melones 37 65
Don Pedro 73 105
Lake Oroville 56 101
Trinity Lake 29 48
San Luis Res 44 64
New Bullards Bar 79 124
Lake McClure 53 116
Pine Flat Res 45 122
FOLSOM LAKE 51 119
Midnight Jan 17
https://cdec.water.ca.gov/resapp/RescondMain
From Wiki:
“ The Great Flood of 1862 was the largest flood in the recorded history of Oregon, Nevada, and California, occurring from December 1861 to January 1862. It was preceded by weeks of continuous rains and snows in the very high elevations that began in Oregon in November 1861 and continued into January 1862. This was followed by a record amount of rain from January 9–12, and contributed to a flood that extended from the Columbia River southward in western Oregon, and through California to San Diego, and extended as far inland as Idaho in the Washington Territory, Nevada and Utah in the Utah Territory, and Arizona in the western New Mexico Territory. The event dumped an equivalent of 10 feet (3.0 m) of water in California, in the form of rain and snow, over a period of 43 days.[3][4] Immense snowfalls in the mountains of far western North America caused more flooding in Idaho, Arizona, New Mexico, as well as in Baja California and Sonora, Mexico the following spring and summer, as the snow melted.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_of_1862
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