Climate Change? Nahhh ...

Nope.

My bad.

Sorry.

 

No worries.

 

Thanks. That's what I was wondering. Knew the coastal areas of California are getting a ton of rain, but wasn't sure if it was getting deep enough into the mountains and the Colorado River basin to replenish some of the rivers and reservoirs that desperately need it, as well as hopefully tamp down the wildfire threat later this year.

 

It's good news/bad news. California's quirky in that most of the important water-rentention reservoirs are up in the mountains, to capture the spring snowmelt. Which is great when the mountains get a ton of snow. But heavy rain in the valleys doesn't really sink in anywhere -- the ground is adobe clay or rock -- so it just runs off and makes mudslides. There are some Bay Area reservoirs -- Lafayette, Briones, San Pablo, Berryessa -- that will benefit from this. But the excess just runs back into the Sacramento and American Rivers on its way to the Pacific.

As others have said, not having a premature melt (and having these storms continue to pile up later in the season) will help the most. Oroville, Hetch Hetchy and the Mokelumne/Toulumne Rivers are the keys to breaking the drought.

 

I don't think it's going to help all that much. The clouds need to stop and dump directly over Lake Mead and Lake Tahoe (but they're still 15 minutes away).
It does seem weird to hear drought-drought-drought when it is pouring rain outside.

 

Thanks for your graciousness.

I was posting in haste - and with a jackass attitude.

You're a mensch.

 

I had glanced at your more technical post and gave it a mental TL;DR. Saw the one I posted and it was well reasoned and easy to understand so I pitched it on the pile.

Don't worry about it, it's all good.

 

SMH. Morons.

 

Hank Hill, influencer.

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