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2023-03-09 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Warmer and Wetter Storm For California Begins Thursday night

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Posted by lord garth 2023-03-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 So mudslide season begins.

Posted by ed in texas 2023-03-09 10:19|| 2023-03-09 10:19|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2023-03-09 12:43|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2023-03-09 12:55|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2023-03-09 14:17|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2023-03-09 14:58|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2023-03-09 16:49|| Front Page Top

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