Daily Drought Watch: California Snowpack at 54% of Normal

[XemaSab]

Statewide Average SWEQ

Today: 10"
Yesterday: 10"

Statewide Percent of (expected total by) April 1

Today: 35%
Yesterday: 35%

Statewide Percent of Normal

Today: 54%
Yesterday: 55%

http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/snowsurvey_sno/DLYSWEQ

:popcorn:

[Journeyman]

1. Lake Mendocino is now a trickling river running through a caking mudflat . . .

Without rationing, they'll run out of water by July.

With rationing. . .?


Video here:

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/north_bay&id=6640076

[XemaSab]

2. My aunt's been telling me that Lake Mendocino is LOW for weeks.

She lives in Potter Valley.

Dude, I watched the video. The irony of them telling people to install low-flow toilets while showing green, green lawn after green, green lawn is palpable.

And as far as maybe telling people to cut back sometime maybe next month?

Dude... the state should be on mandatory rations effective immediately. Watering yards once a week would be a good start, as well as a ban on topping or refilling pools and a ban on washing cars in the driveway.

The personally annoying part about this is we planted a bunch of trees and shrubs last fall thinking we would have a healthy rainfall year for them to get established. Eventually the willow and sycamore will tap into the ground water, but they'll need watering for another year or so. I guess the triage order is food, trees, shrubs, other plants. :(

[kestrel91316]

3. Good news: storm coming before the weekend. Every little bit helps.

[XemaSab]

4. It's already overcast here

The storm two weeks ago dropped a whole half inch, and the storm coming in now is supposed to drop another whole half inch.

Every bit helps, but I've been in storms here where there was 9" in a DAY. As opposed to like, under 9" in a season. :(

[XemaSab]

5. Apparently there have been no updates for a few days

:shrug:

[Phoenix-Risen]

6. Mean while in Arizona we are releasing water

Heavy runoff from several storms in December filled Roosevelt, the largest of SRP's storage reservoirs, and left almost no room to handle additional runoff without using space designated for flood control.

The reservoir is just inches from what is considered full capacity, an elevation of 2,151 feet above sea level. It has never reached that level before.

You either have too many people or you don't know how to manage your resources.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/02/06/20090206water0207.html

[Oerdin]

7. Rainy weekend.

I'm not sure if the storm made it up north to where it could contribute to the snow pack in the Sierras but at least in SoCal it has been raining cats and dogs all weekend. That does at least help fill the local reservoirs a bit which means less water has to be imported from up north.