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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Warmer and Wetter Storm For California Begins Thursday night
2023-03-09
[Yahoo] Some of the regions in California buried under several feet of snow are now bracing for rapid melting due to forecasts of higher temperatures and heavy rain.

Another round of atmospheric rivers will be slamming much of California with tropical moisture over the coming days, washing away the snowpack that has accumulated in recent weeks forecasts show.

Up to 8 inches of rain is expected to fall on top of the piles of snow in lower elevations, which could cause flash flooding and present the risk for mudslides and rockslides with debris flow as streams as rivers rise quickly and saturated slopes are unable to hold in the extra moisture.
Not just California - Western Nevada has flood watch in effect also

likely that this storm will be followed by one or two more of the wet and not as cold variety over the following 10 days
Posted by:lord garth

#6  The naming of the atmospheric river wasn't arbitrary.

It was the result of better satellite imagery that allows the quantification of water vapor in a vertical column of atmosphere. When people looked at how much vapor was moving along they compared it to the amount of water in, say, the Sacramento or San Joaquin Rivers.
Posted by: lord garth   2023-03-09 16:49  

#5  new dam might hurt a fish....so cant do that. Better to release water into the Pacific and complain about a drought and climate change. Also, they have successfully changed the language again...atmospheric river. A new name in the last couple of years to describe the normal winter weather storm pattern. Kinda like a bomb cyclone, etc. etc.

Droughts in California are a cyclical phenomenon. Water shortages for human beings is a CHOICE. There would be plenty with proper storage. But wasting money on woke issues is much batter I guess than building water storage.
Posted by: Angase Schwarzeneggar4088   2023-03-09 14:58  

#4  Sites Reservoir has been in the planning stage since the 1950s with a more formal set of studies in the 1990s to comply with environmental laws.

It is to be built on the north west side of the Sacramento Valley. With luck, construction would start in 2025 and be complete by 2030. If constructed to current plans it would have a storage capacity of about 1,800 K acre Feet which would be about half the capacity of the Oroville Reservoir. It would help but CA actually needs about another half dozen that size.
Posted by: lord garth   2023-03-09 14:17  

#3   ^ Newsom believes that everyone in the whole wide world should come to live in California but he doesn't say how he'll provide water for them and he refuses to build new reservoirs. Maybe he thinks they'll all drink sewage while he drinks wine.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2023-03-09 12:55  

#2  It would be very nice if California had had the foresight to build dams, reservoirs, and other ways of keeping this water in store against the next drouth.

But I know they will just let it all run into the Pacific Ocean and then whine and moan when the next drouth hits.
Posted by: Tom   2023-03-09 12:43  

#1  So mudslide season begins.
Posted by: ed in texas   2023-03-09 10:19  

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