And from the California Department of water resources.
All reservoirs currently above normal historical average.
HT/KK
Discover more from Watts Up With That?
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
And from the California Department of water resources.
All reservoirs currently above normal historical average.
HT/KK
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
I saved a picture of the reservoirs from June 28th. Shasta and Oroville were both solid blue full. They must have released a LOT of water to get down to the current levels.
June 28th Oroville was at a maximum level of 896′ (3,474,600 acre feet) it’s now at 856′ (2,894,300 af) so it’s dropped 40′ in about 6 weeks and currently drops just over a foot per day. I’m sure the farmers etc. downstream are happy.
Come on people, you should all know by now that weather fills reservoirs but climate empties them. /sarc
I guess you forgot Ventura County in your article. Lake Casitas remains at 43.5% capacity. Still in a drought here.
CA is still in drought. It’s just negative at the moment. (yeah, sarc). In five years, the records will be adjusted properly to show this period never happened.
I think the feds have to go in and build some reservoirs under crisis legislation on behalf of US citizens for the inevitable.
They predicted “some places would be wetter and some places would be dryer…” They just didn’t mention these places will change from year to year…so…yeah – weather.
great news. We’re having a drought here in central Chile after a couple of years in which reservoirs had good levels and our ski centers had record-long seasons. This year has been bad so far, but obviously is not forever, just like California shows.
Shift gears on the California grant-writing teams to federal money for full reservoirs as a threat. The inside contacts at the agencies won’t notice anything with the right influence.
Call up the Solyndra grant and loan oversight team.
The ‘drought’ is caused mostly by the effort to ‘save’ Delta Smelt, an invasive specie fish that literally no one can prove still exist. But billions of gallons of fresh irrigable water is diverted to save this fish by court order.
Lake Mead, east of Las Vegas, is doing well.
http://mead.uslakes.info/level.asp
The cult of CAGW have confused competitive propaganda which they are the champs of, with science.
The prediction of never-ending draughts in the Great Lakes region by the cult of CAGW was also falsified.
The great lakes region has gone from draught in 2013 to record high water in 2019 due to consecutive cold winters with high snowfall and wet summers.
2013, Record low water levels in Lake Huron and Lake Michigan – Cult of CAGW – Obviously climate change, prepare for the new norm
2019, Record high water levels, Canadian Great Lakes – Cult of CAGW, obviously we are clueless as to what is happening now to the planet and what will happen next, as this very observation supports the assertion that what has happened warming followed by nothing to do with atmospheric CO2 levels
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/great-lakes-water-problems-1.5230158
Maybe CA’s missing “permanent drought” is hiding in the ocean?
It takes 1.2 gal of water for 2 almonds. Oh no. It takes 2.4 gal of water to produce 1 oz.. of beef. How come we never point at the cows. And let’s not forget. Almonds don’t fart. Just thinkin.
Givesome Newsome seems to love Billion dollar Poseidon (Brookfield Infrastructure Partners) project in Huntington Beach. Seems willing to buy off on anything it says it’s doing to meet his compliance demands
As an over 50 year So Cal resident I always remind people that climate is not some average of weather. It’s a pattern. In So Cal it’s an annual pattern of rainy winters and dry summers. But it’s also a decades long pattern of drought interrupted by heavy rainy seasons. It’s been going on for centuries if not millennia.
Exactly, average rainfall in So Cal is dramatically below average. We regularly get little rain even in the winter, then every seven to ten years we get a huge bonus. The pattern can be seen clearly in the long term charts: http://www.laalmanac.com/images/chart_rainfall_LA_1887_2018.jpg
My forecast in 2014 was for California rains to begin returning late 2015, increasing through 2016, and too much by early 2017.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/08/18/spot-the-portion-of-drought-caused-by-climate-change/#comment-1322062
Totally fake news.
Gerry “Moonbeam” Brown pronounced California is in a “Permanent Drought” due to AGW aka “Climate Change” and now we must soon ration water, first to 55 gallons/person/day and then a few years later to 50 g/p/d. None of the voter-approved dams will do to save more water. Next year we park our pre-2006 diesel vehicles, the following close down Diablo Canyon, sing Kubala and California will once again be well.
So this is the California philosophy…
When they have plentiful water, there’s no need to build new reservoirs, because, well, the water is plentiful.
When they don’t have enough water, there’s no point in building new reservoirs, because it’s never gonna’ rain again anyway.
California’s government has claimed that we’re in a drought, and rationed residential water users, for most of the last 20 years and is still rationing today. I would think the residents would have figured it out by now: there is no such thing as a drought that is the normal permanent state of affairs.
The real shortage is of dams. We need to go back to building enough of them for the population.
We also need to start rationing the largest users of water — farms and industry, who consume 80% of the total and do it for around 1% of the residential price. Better yet, institute a free market in water so that they’ll all have to pay the residential price. That might at least drive some of the outrageously wasteful water uses (rice and almonds, for starters) out of California.
We also need to start rationing the largest users of water — farms and industry, who consume 80% of the total and do it for around 1% of the residential price. Better yet, institute a free market in water so that they’ll all have to pay the residential price….
Small farmer speaking: those are our longstanding water rights you’re arrogantly suggesting be trampled. Would you prefer pitchforks, or tar and feathers?
And should your oh-so-ingenious scheme come to being, how loud would you snivel at skyrocketing grocery prices?
I just love the comments from people who have no idea what they are speaking about. Having lived in California my entire life I know that the droughts are real, and the water resource department has nowhere to store the water.
Well, every time the British Met office predicts a much warmer winter the UK is subjected to brutal cold, ice and snow … so I suppose now that California is predicted to bake to death … well, you’re all going to drown.
I notice from the reservoir graphic that Oroville is 118% above the historic average … and the new billion dollar spillway still doesn’t work. Ah, politics and engineering: what a mixture!
I was a kid living in Oceanside in 1976, when then-Gov Jerry Brown declared California was suffering a drought from which the state would take decades to overcome (his buddies hadn’t yet conjured the climate change contextual fraud).
The following winter, we had enough rain over 40 days and 40 nights to cancel even the slightest idea there was a drought: the landscape was transformed — cars and houses in riverbeds, riverbeds running where there were no rivers before — all over the place.
As the saying goes, “It never rains in California, it pours.”
No matter which side of politics you are on. Or which side of the global warming issue you are on, let’s not get complacent. Conservation of water is everybody’s issue. Liberal Naturalists to conservative farmers, it is the lifeblood of Californias economy and preservation.
Let’s not party it up now then panic next drought. One place that State and federal money should be spent is on better water infrastructure, storage and conservation technologies. Xeriscapeing, drip irrigation, gps, other satellite tech. Along with low tech methods of storage. We don’t need to spend money on admistration, studies, or education. Let’s spend it on implementation. Already have administration in place. Been studied to death. We don’t need any more education, we get it! Let’s do it!
I find it ironic how Republicans like to complain about California and its politics, it’s people etc.. But, you sure like to vacation here, appreciate how beautiful it is here, and even live here and complain. -Like a true Republican.. Condescending, hypocritical and in general, full of yourselves.
Republicans have been vacationing in California well before it became a democratic state. Conservatives built the infrastructure that allows liberals to get to the coffee shop at an early hour of 11am
I am a California native. The most embarrassing part is the basic rules of civilization are being forgotten due to rampant idealistic thinking. Saving water for future use is basic. Somehow, we “can’t” store more water. Proper sanitation is basic, but we have massive groups of homeless living in their own excrement, causing outbreaks of typhoid and Hep A. This is basic common sense stuff. Our children are being told they have no future due to climate change, and we wonder why they are fat and depressed.
You are mixing the issues up. Water certainly can be stored, it is being done all over California. The water storage does need to be updated though. The homeless cleanliness is not a water issue, it is a mental health issue. The homeless that live near the riverbanks are not any cleaner than others. Our children’s “ depression” is not as wide spread as it seems. Just been media blasted like most modern day issues. And it has nothing to do with drought in California. California has less depressed kids than other parts of the country.