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yay California!
songbird wrote:
songbird wrote: songbird wrote: songbird wrote: ...Jan 26... today's report updated to 9,653,802af ...Feb 9... and now they're up to 11,075,801 acre feet. ...Feb 25... 12,009,924 af. slowed down quite a bit the past few weeks with very little wet weather, but they still have a ways to go yet. ...Mar 7... 13,174,697 af (missing one reservoir) ....Mar 12... 14,004,806 af cranking right along, storms still coming. the storm yesterday made it to the south and the day before they had a storm rain in the central part for over a day and a half. songbird |
#32
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yay California!
songbird wrote:
.... ...Mar 7... 13,174,697 af (missing one reservoir) ...Mar 12... 14,004,806 af note: this total is from Mar 10th report totals. 200 - 300 thousand af per day is such a huge amount of water. songbird |
#33
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yay California!
songbird wrote:
songbird wrote: ... ...Mar 7... 13,174,697 af (missing one reservoir) ...Mar 12... 14,004,806 af ....Mar 15... 15,620,430 most of the gains still in the north. the south did get some rains, but they still need a lot more. a break in the weather for a bit before the storms return. songbird |
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yay California!
songbird wrote:
songbird wrote: songbird wrote: ... ...Mar 7... 13,174,697 af (missing one reservoir) ...Mar 12... 14,004,806 af ...Mar 15... 15,620,430 ....Apr 6... 17,147,962 things have calmed down quite a bit and the snow pack has begun to shrink even more without new snows piling on top. more rains in the forecast, but i don't know how heavy they will turn out to be. not enough in the central and southern parts by far... still hoping for more rain this rainy season, but they are doing much better this year than last year. songbird |
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yay California!
songbird wrote:
songbird wrote: songbird wrote: songbird wrote: ... ...Mar 7... 13,174,697 af (missing one reservoir) ...Mar 12... 14,004,806 af ...Mar 15... 15,620,430 ...Apr 6... 17,147,962 looks like it topped out sometime the past few weeks at about 19maf, which put it at seasonal average of 90%. still most of the water is far to the north of where it was really needed. the central part of CA did get some more rains and snows which did help a lot, but still could have used a lot more. the southern part of CA did not get much at all to help it break the drought. the snow pack is rapidly melting off. if the coming year is a La Nina year (dryer than normal) then the drought will be back on for the central part and the southern part will be even worse than it currently is (which is hard to imagine). from the other side Lake Powell and Lake Mead are also on the low end of their historic averages. the snow pack there was not too bad, it will be interesting to see what level Lake Powell tops out at. they've been keeping the upper reservoirs fairly full (that feed into Lake Powell). songbird |
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yay California!
songbird wrote:
....about CA water storage/season... this year is looking pretty good, if there wasn't the situation with the Oroville Spillway it would be great. major reservoir levels are reading about: Total Storage (AF) 22,656,646 Total Average Storage 20,567,895 Total % Group Average 110.16% Snow pack is where it is at: Statewide Average SWEQ 31" Statewide Percent of April 1 110% Statewide Percent of Normal 194% especially considering that two short years ago it was pretty much zero... Heading over to the Colorado River basin (which also supplies water to CA via aqueducts): the river forecast is that there will be some extra water for Lake Mead this year, not exactly sure how much, but anything extra is a help with it running lower. the more good news is that there are expectations and hopes that less will be used. snow pack there is reported to also be in pretty good shape. runoff is just now starting to get into gear. the overall picture is pretty good. the drought is mostly considered over and another bullet was dodged. this extra wet year will buy them more time to upgrade and enhance the ground water districts and to try to get a better balance between pumping and recharge rates. plenty of projects are going in to help with this, but it does take time for them to be put in. water recycling and desalinization projects are also in the works. and of course i'm always glad to see environmental restoration and projects aimed at putting a more natural water holding systems back in place (forests and meadows upstream). just returning beavers to an area can do a great deal for that. songbird |
#37
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yay California!
songbird wrote:
.... the most recent update looks ok, but is pretty much as expected after such a great snowpack/runoff. Total AF 23,169,139 Group Average 118.05% only three reservoirs in the list not doing that well, and one of them is the result of the spillway break at Oroville (repairs underway), the other two are in the far south where the need is greatest. hopefully they can be shored up this season from water shipped south. Lake Mead and Lake Powell are doing ok, but the lack of spring rains meant about 1maf of snow evaporated rather than contributed to runoff. the inflows to Lake Powell peaked a few weeks ago, but it is still rising very slowly. probably will peak soon (around 66-67% full). songbird |
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