Posted on 02/01/2023 6:16:45 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The snowpack in the Sierra Nevada mountains in California is at the highest level since 1995, thanks to a series of “atmospheric river” storms at the new year, and another this week, holding hopes for ending the drought. As Breitbart News has noted, California’s mountainous region has been the great beneficiary of the storms that caused floods in the Central Valley and coastal cities, while dumping huge amounts of snow at high elevations.
The storms come after three years of extreme drought, which meteorologists said would last through a third winter, thanks to a pronounced La Niña effect, which typically brings dry weather to the California coast.
But one storm in the fall was followed in December by a barrage of storms that left California’s ski resorts with the deepest snow in the nation in some places. And now the snowpack is the highest it has been in 30 years.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Spring runoff. No point in saving the water.
Because it never snowed before the industrial revolution, and man and his evil SUV’s.
Not to worry
California won’t loosen water restrictions
Enjoy the suck
This is unpossible.
ManBearPig said everything is melting and snowfall will cease, cause the erf has a fever, or something..
Lol atmospheric rivers, bombs and other insane terms are weaponized forms of weather that makes what is normal ebbs and flows sound sensational.
Just wait until the Spring thaw causes all those dams to have problems.
You can expect Gov dipstick to double down on Drought Restrictions in about 4 months
Straight to the Pacific for a lot of it. Mount Rose ski area just south of Reno has gotten 26 feet since the Christmas storms. Not much thaw time either.
Too bad none of that water can be diverted to the Colorado River system. There’s a public works project for ya, gubnah.
Not possible.
“Climate Change”: The name implies it is science, but it is actually a secular religion that cannot be evaluated or debated as science ... it can only be discussed — if it can be discussed at all — on the basis of what it actually is which means there can be no rational (i.e., scientific) discussion.
Did the Weather Channel come up with those names?
I think “Bomb Cyclone” was a term they came up with for what everyone in New England had been calling a Noreaster for the previous 10 years. Which was basically a winter hurricane. A low front that comes up from the south traveling in a north eastern direction and spinning counter clockwise.
Atmospheric river is just another name for the Pineapple Express. Its nothing new but it sounds scarier.
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Global Warming is over.
Agreed. I don’t buy into the hype words. I don’t mind “atmospheric river,” aka Pineapple Express. 9 of them in three weeks is unusual but far from unprecedented
“The runoff was so heavy we had no choice but to flow it past the dams as the pressure would have been too great” or some other BS.
Woodbutcher, you are completely correct. They have hyped-up the language.
BTW, Juan Brown on his youtube channel has a GREAT video regarding the current water-snowpack conditions in the northern Sierras. He flies his Cessna 310 over all this area and shows aerial views of the snowpack and the lakes. Excellent for those interested for in-depth analysis.
Whoops, Juan Brown’s channel on Youtube is Blancolirio. Sorry.
Over a Billion people are being refugeed because of Global Warming and the oceans are a boiling caldron!
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