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| Lake Oroville in CA near 100% capacity for 2nd year in a row (Good News) |
| 2024-05-08 |
| [Newsweek] California's Lake Oroville is officially at full capacity, following another winter with lots of precipitation. Lake Oroville, formed by the Oroville Dam in Butte County, northern California, is the state's second-largest reservoir. Like most of California's reservoirs, the lake saw extremely dry periods in recent years due to the megadrought that gripped the region. However, its water levels now stand at about 900 feet tall, its full capacity, for the second year in a row. [back in Sept 2021, it was at about 630'; also good news is that the recent structural and hydraulic improvements to the dam seem to be working quite well] Related: Lake Oroville: 2023-02-15 Dramatic new images show parched Lake Oroville transformed by California storms: Atmospheric rivers dumped trillions of gallons of rain on the state, leading to flooding - but also boosting drought-strapped reservoirs Lake Oroville: 2023-01-04 Next Atmospheric River to Hit CA Wed pm; then another next weekend Lake Oroville: 2023-01-01 Another week or more of Heavy Precip for California |
| Posted by:Lord Garth |
| #2 and in the 24 hours ending 9am 5 May, the northern Sierra got another 2 feet of snow. The U of Cal Sierra Lab is at about 150% of normal snow/water equivalent. |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2024-05-08 14:54 |
| #1 "Wiki: After more than a decade of either unusually wet or unusually dry years, snowpack in the Sierra Nevada was close to normal in 2024. Snowpack throughout the Sierra range was 110 percent of average on April 1, 2024, according to the California Department of Water Resources (DWR)." |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2024-05-08 14:35 |