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1 year of water left, but no one seems to notice. Too bad its not ebola or ISIS related.
It's mainly the unvaccinated measle carrying crazies that i'm running for the hills from. SO SCARY!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by blazes_boylan
Except, that's not, literally, true. If it was, people would be leaving the state in droves. Jay Famiglietti, the guy who said we have a year of water left, clarified that he wasn't speaking literally. Rather he meant we have a year of water existing currently in state reservoirs. That doesn't include groundwater--of which we have millions and millions of acre-feet--and it doesn't include what may or may not fall from the sky in the next year.Quote:
Originally Posted by blazes_boylan
If you want the non-hyperbolic version, read this: http://californiawaterblog.com/2015/...015-a-preview/
From what I've read, they are in the hills. So, yeah, running the wrong way.
Not just Cali .. the whole West has had a dismal snow year (except for our little bit of Colorado, which is about "average").Quote:
Originally Posted by jon gaper
http://cires1.colorado.edu/~aslater/SNOW/march2015.html
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http://cires1.colorado.edu/~aslater/...ercentage.html
In some regions (e.g. Stevens Pass, Washington), winter precip has not been all that low; the difference is that rain rather than snow has fallen... though this still means there's a shift in the hydrograph.
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CALIFORNIA SNOWPACK 8% OF NORMAL,BEATS 1977 AS THE WORST
Worst what?
Great find-thanks for the link.Quote:
Originally Posted by LightRanger
One thing I think people would be shocked to hear is how much water is wasted in the craft beer industry.
Actually worst since 1956-or close to that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Garth Bimble
At least we can drown our sorrows with the end result of brewing. Not so much with fracking.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rodneyyee
Smithers BC sits at 114% of normal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blizzard_of_Oz
Snoqualmie Pass is at 81 inches for the year. The next worst year ever was 1976-77 at 191 inches. THAT is dismal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blizzard_of_Oz
Earth is 4.5 billion years old, just curious how many years ago Snoqualmie Pass started recording precipitation.Quote:
Originally Posted by SurlyRightClick
I always have to chuckle when people refer to the relatively short history of weather data collection in asserting that it might not really indicate whether the climate might be shifting away from supporting human life ... As though earth's climate has been conducive to supporting human life for most of it's history, or as though there were even one other example of a planet's climate that did.
Who cares how old the earth is? No snowboards or rockered skis back then anywaysQuote:
Originally Posted by 1000-oaks
Good thing 1000-oaks got wise to that global warming conspiracy. Academics must be making, literally, thousands of dollars off it.
8%? Vibes.
grass is the new powder
Grass can't grow without water.
I'm betting big on sand skiing...
https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6002/5...f8280c0a_b.jpg
I thought Tahoe was doing well... based on occasionally glancing at a headline. Weren't they just struggling with too much rain and mudslides in outside of LA?
What's going on out there?
Reasonably well. At least compared to recent years. El Nino supposedly going to kick into high gear in the next several weeks.Quote:
Originally Posted by stfu&gbtw
LA mudslides were a one-off hard, and fast storm a month or two back. They haven't actually gotten much down there yet.
But the OP was posting about last year anyway.
Turns out it was just an average year in the end (maybe slightly above average with these April storms). Still, after the last few years I am very happy with this 'average year'. Seems like mother nature also took into account the 5-day work week with many of the storms coming in conveniently on Friday night.Quote:
Originally Posted by LightRanger
Tried to post a link to opensnow but I am not allowed to as a new member.
The past few years going backpacking in the Sierras have shown how much the drought and the general reduction in snowfall as well as warmer temps are affecting the few remaining glaciers in the Sierras.
You can see the moraine stretching for a mile on the Palisade Glacier (the largest in the Sierras)
What a difference two years makes! Thankfully, for Cali, last year wasn't bad, and this year is off the charts good, in fact too good for some like Oroville residents.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blizzard_of_Oz
The same link now shows the snowpack in the southern Sierras at 198% of normal! http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/snowapp/sweq.action
Nice. Too bad the fucksticks in CA will remove water restrictions and continue wasting water washing cars, overwatering lawns and otherwise blow through the surplus.
So wish we could shut off the CO River until they learn.
Restrictions still in place. My car has not been washed in years. And I have no lawn. Just some landscaping that seems to have gone off during the drought. Still a fuckstick, but what is your point? You make assumptions and get angry?
Believing in science my entire life, I have no doubt that climate changes are caused by atmospheric conditions cause by industry over the past 50 to 100 years. Yes we have many natural causes such as volcanoes and eruptions of methane gases from natural and animal causes contribute but we must control what we can to slow this process down or we all will pay a huge cost just to survive.
We must control populations or natural climate changes will dictate the final outcome which will be lack of food and increases in diseases and a great reduction for all (including people who do not politically want or recognize change).