The media goofs can't give up their narrative about California's "climate change induced drought", so they're forced to make crazy statements like "This massive influx of rain and snow does not mean the drought has ended". Uh...yeah, WATER actually does tend to end droughts if you get enough of it, which we clearly have. Seriously - that's all our media here is talking about. That we're inundated, and it's catastrophic, AND the drought is NOT over". And then they give you a mini lecture on "climate change".
Anyways, here are the new reservoir levels as of yesterday, based on historical average capacity. Keep in mind that it's still raining all over California, and MORE storms are incoming!:
New Bullards Bar: 122%
Shasta: 80%
Oroville: 99%
Folsom: 110%
Camanche: 122%
New Melones: 64%
Don Pedro: 103%
Sonoma: 99%
McClure: 110%
Cachuma 130%
Diamond Valley: 84%
Millerton: 148%
Pine Flat: 119%
Castaic: 70%
Side note: the media is also pushing the idea that the latest California drought (where liberals inexplicably dumped millions of gallons of reservoir water into the ocean on a regular basis, draining our reservoirs ON PURPOSE) was so bad it was the worst in 1200 years! Yeah...no. They made that up.
Are these measures set against annual stats or against average levels at thispoint in the water year. Big difference and we need to identify our metrics.
Historical average capacity isn't the same thing as the reservoirs being full to their physical capacity.
These are the reservoirs that are now nearing their actual physical capacity:
Camanche
New Bullards Bar
Cachuma
Millerton
I expect more names will be added to that list in the coming weeks. We've seen this before in California. The trend was always that they would become overly filled - they CAN hold the water, just that stuff around them can get flooded a bit!
excellent....many thanks
My pleasure, fren!