California Storms
Jan 10, 2023 19:27:09 #
Hoping all of our California members stay safe in the present weather situation battering your state. Best of luck to all of you!
Don
Don
Jan 10, 2023 22:23:57 #
PAR4DCR wrote:
Hoping all of our California members stay safe in the present weather situation battering your state. Best of luck to all of you!
Don
Don
Indeed! We have friends in Carmel, who are finally getting power (and heat) back, but it’s still raining and flooding.
Jan 10, 2023 22:49:17 #
Yep. Hurricanes have taught me to be sympathetic about weather events elsewhere.
Jan 10, 2023 23:06:50 #
kpmac wrote:
Yep. Hurricanes have taught me to be sympathetic about weather events elsewhere.
YES!
Jan 11, 2023 00:11:50 #
bikinkawboy
Loc: north central Missouri
After all that complaining about the years long drought, I bet the reservoirs are filling up, which should relieve the water restrictions.
The heavy rains shouldn’t come as any surprise, nearly every drought is broken by deluges. In 2004 in north central Missouri we had a super dry summer. Cracks in the ground wide enough to put my wrist in. The drought was broken on Labor Day when I had at least 13.25” in less than 24 hours. I say at least because my 6” rain gauge ran over.
The heavy rains shouldn’t come as any surprise, nearly every drought is broken by deluges. In 2004 in north central Missouri we had a super dry summer. Cracks in the ground wide enough to put my wrist in. The drought was broken on Labor Day when I had at least 13.25” in less than 24 hours. I say at least because my 6” rain gauge ran over.
Jan 11, 2023 06:44:10 #
PAR4DCR wrote:
Hoping all of our California members stay safe in the present weather situation battering your state. Best of luck to all of you!
Don
Don
Thanks Don. We were without power for three days. The rain is constant and more storms on their way....
Jan 11, 2023 08:47:36 #
Jan 11, 2023 09:16:25 #
[quote=bikinkawboy]After all that complaining about the years long drought, I bet the reservoirs are filling up, which should relieve the water restrictions.
I was wondering about this. Does all this moisture reach the Colorado river to fill the reservoirs behind the Hoover and Glen Canyon dams? Those seemed to be the most important since they power several large cities and a good chunk of California's agriculture.
I was wondering about this. Does all this moisture reach the Colorado river to fill the reservoirs behind the Hoover and Glen Canyon dams? Those seemed to be the most important since they power several large cities and a good chunk of California's agriculture.
Jan 11, 2023 09:22:38 #
[quote=fourlocks]
Most of the water for the rivers and reservoirs come from snow melt in the mountains. The rain doesn't help that much but the snow will help a lot when it melts.
bikinkawboy wrote:
After all that complaining about the years long drought, I bet the reservoirs are filling up, which should relieve the water restrictions.
I was wondering about this. Does all this moisture reach the Colorado river to fill the reservoirs behind the Hoover and Glen Canyon dams? Those seemed to be the most important since they power several large cities and a good chunk of California's agriculture.
I was wondering about this. Does all this moisture reach the Colorado river to fill the reservoirs behind the Hoover and Glen Canyon dams? Those seemed to be the most important since they power several large cities and a good chunk of California's agriculture.
Most of the water for the rivers and reservoirs come from snow melt in the mountains. The rain doesn't help that much but the snow will help a lot when it melts.
Jan 11, 2023 10:19:12 #
To put the California rain problem into a perspective, one inch of rain on one acre of ground weighs 113 tons. When this water flows down the topography by gravity, the mass in motion is tremendous which is why it can move boulders, trees, cars, homes, and anything else that is not met as an immovable force.
Jan 11, 2023 10:23:11 #
rplain1 wrote:
Lots of rain and flooding in California but there is also tons of snow in the Sierra.Most of the water for the rivers and reservoirs come from snow melt in the mountains. The rain doesn't help that much but the snow will help a lot when it melts.
Jan 11, 2023 12:04:17 #
On Tuesday morning everyone in the house received a tornado warning at 0345 and it lasted until 0415. I just rolled over and went back to sleep, the darn tornado be damn.
Jan 11, 2023 14:50:03 #
PAR4DCR wrote:
Hoping all of our California members stay safe in the present weather situation battering your state. Best of luck to all of you!
Don
Don
Down here in Orange County the rains weren’t as severe as up North. Snow on the mountains is a good thing for future supply and the Northern Cal reservoirs are beginning to rise as you can see on this chart. From what I read yesterday, the water level in Lake Mead has risen by over a foot.
Jan 11, 2023 16:09:26 #
bikinkawboy
Loc: north central Missouri
Most of the Colorado River water originates in the Rockies. It gets very little from the east dry side of the Sierras. The west side gets most of the moisture, which flows west towards the Pacific Ocean or southerly into the San Joaquin Valley. The Colorado ends in Mexico in the Gulf of California.
Some of the runoff from the upper east side of the Sierras that would flow easterly was diverted west to LA over or through the mountains nearly a century ago, turning fertile irrigated valleys and lakes into desert wasteland.
Some of the runoff from the upper east side of the Sierras that would flow easterly was diverted west to LA over or through the mountains nearly a century ago, turning fertile irrigated valleys and lakes into desert wasteland.
Jan 11, 2023 17:24:57 #
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