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That’s snaining. The snain in Spanain snains mainly on the planains.

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Not rowing? Oh yeah, that’s taken.

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How much will all of this moisture help with the Lake Mead situation? Any?

Apologies in advance, I’m geographically and meteorologically challenged.

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Not much unless it’s indicative of long-term/permanently increased precipitation levels

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Also, where the precipitation is dropping doesn’t really feed into Lake Mead.

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But California is (at the moment) out of Extreme and Exceptional Drought, and merely in Moderate Drought and Severe Drought now (with some parts even up to Abnormally Dry), which is nice.

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And over the sierras here I’m in the “great basin”. Water doesn’t escape. The watershed for the Colorado is further east. For example, lake Tahoe has one outlet, the Truckee river. It flows not far into Pyramid lake north of Reno. A lot of the runoff from the creeks off the eastern slopes of the mountains near me flows into Washoe lake, which is a big drainage puddle. None of the water in most of Nevada and parts of Utah and other states makes it to the sea.

Meanwhile as the sun is setting it’s all snow. I’m kinda of wishing it doesn’t switch to rain this weekend. While I’m not looking forward to clearing my road yet again it’s been a total winter wonderland around my house this year and I don’t want to see it disappear yet. At least on the mountain it likely going to stay snow so the ski season should go long.

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A huge problem is a lot of rain won’t get captured. It’ll melt the snow at lower elevations, but the major reservoirs are already nearing max capacity, so most of it will be released and flow back into the Pacific.

Another issue is that all this wet will lead to an explosion of plant growth in the spring. But when it dries out in the summer, you get the conditions for major brushfires.

6352

I must admit I never had “California joins Atlantis” om my Bingo card.

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Yeah, one of the resorts near me has received over 600 inches of snow this year. Currently sitting on a base of 173 inches of packed powder, in mid-March. Pretty crazy. I wouldn’t be totally shocked if there’s still some limited skiing on the 4th of July this year, unless we get a really hot spring in which case I’m going to be kayaking my way into work like this guy in the '83 floods (thus far, it’s been very similar conditions that lead to it, all that’s left is a fast warm-up).

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Oroville dam opened up the spillway for only the second time since the failure/rebuild.

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National guard dropping emergency supplies to those stranded in the snow.

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I heard that on NPR yesterday. Kinda brought a tear to my eye, even though those cows are probably scheduled for the dinner table soon enough anyway.

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At least that’s a much less excruciating way for the cow to go than starving to death.

6359

I just saw something like 50 feet of snow in certain areas? That’s pretty crazy, even for a ski mountain.

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We’re down the shore in south Jersey and it’s been gusting up to 50 mph here today and a solid 15-25mph all the time.

My brother in New Hampshire has two feet of snow from this same storm.

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Modest amount of snow here, haven’t measured it but maybe eight inches? It’s all heavy, wet snow though; pretty, but the kind that takes down trees and power lines.

6362

It’s a good thing I’m not in the city today! Oh…. Wait…… shit. That’s a couple blocks south of me. Uh oh.

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