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Storm, Atmospheric river, latest update

budman said:
10-12 hrs a day is not easy... heck construction is not easy. Mucho respect for the trades working it. Amazing at times.

The Construction manager made fun of me for wearing vans. He said "Where you going after this.. the Beach?" :laughing

Great dude. Known him since he was wearing a belt doing concrete. 40 years now. He rides too. :cool
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Yeah, construction can be a tough trade, I was putting in long hours over the Christmas break and on weekends to pay for my school. I put in 18 straight hours running black iron pipe for a restaurant going into an old 150+ YO civil defense building in Portsmouth, NH that had 2x2 foot blocks for it's walls. It was tense because of a very tight timeline and the fact that we couldn't afford to have a single leaking fitting with 2 inch pipe. I was fine with it as I had previously run pipe for injection mold company that had to handle considerably higher pressure. I actually enjoyed the plumbing work, it was almost always interesting.
 
Lake Berryessa Statistics: February 6, 2024


The official word is in from the Solano County Water Agency. Lake Berryessa water level has hit 430', only 10, below Glory Hole! Last year we called 430' the Stedman Asymptote because of how slowly the level was rising toward the 430' mark, which was Robert Stedman's target level obsession on this Facebook page last year.


The lake level has jumped more than 3' in four days to 430' - 10.' below Glory Hole and still rising. We’re getting close to last year's high point. Last year at this time the lake was at 412.5' - 27.5' below Glory Hole on 24.6" of rain. The lake did not reach its present 2024 level until 4/3/23. The highest it got was 430.9', 9.1' below Glory Hole, on 4/24/23 on 41.1" of rain.


Another .1" yesterday brought the season total rainfall at Monticello Dam to 17.46", up 7" in 5 days!


The dam output is flowing at an average 80 cfs (115 AF/day/ - 57,917 AF/yr - 35,906 gal/min). This is still a low output compared to 700 cfs during growing season. The minimum required by law and contract is 45 cfs to protect the fishery during the winter season. Plus, the dam output provides drinking water to 500,000 people in Solano County all year round.


The Gamble Gauge shows the lake is up to 86.1% capacity.

Lake water temperature remains at 52 degrees from 5' to the bottom

Almost to last years hight, a couple more sky rivers aught to top it off.
 
I don't think they can predict very well all the way until next Saturday! it says "light rain showers" for next Sat.
 
AbsolutEnduser said:
I don't think they can predict very well all the way until next Saturday! it says "light rain showers" for next Sat.
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shit, sometimes they even miss the mark just two days in advanced. They called for dry weather after the last storm but then it rained for a bit Thursday evening.
 
Agent Orange said:
shit, sometimes they even miss the mark just two days in advanced. They called for dry weather after the last storm but then it rained for a bit Thursday evening.
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I think that the models they use, which depend on historic data, are no longer valid. I'm not sure how they're going to be able to accurately predict weather in the coming future until the new global weather patterns sort themselves out.
 
Yeah, there is a High Pressure system (HPs) off the coast of British Columbia that is going to keep the current Low Pressure system (LPs) heading towards our coast low along the US coast. For most of the last month, there was a HPs off the coast of Baja that was pushing the LPs up to Seattle and BC.

It's been interesting to watch the dynamics of the Pacific Ocean with Ventusky.com.

Another thing I'm noticing is a lot more bad air through California, probably due to almost no wind during the last day or two.
 
Projected all clear down here. Looks to be a nice week.

My SiL, on the other hand, may be getting buried in Pennsylvania.
 
Sorry for all your troubles guys. Meanwhile in Las Vegas we just got a little bit of rain and snow. Worst damage to my house was my poor pot of green onions that I accidentally left outside and whose poor stalks were all bent over. 😂

Made for some epic scenery around Las Vegas though with our snow-dusted mountain peaks. This is Mt. Wilson and Rainbow Mountain, about a 45-minute drive from the strip.

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In my part of the north state, weather chart shows rain every day except Friday from Valentine's Day (Feb. 14th) to Tuesday, Feb. 20th.

After they mismanage Mother Nature's offerings these past two years, they will scream DROUGHT! all over again in 2025.
 
How did they mismanage it?

And are you under the impression that two years of rain cancels the near-drought conditions of over a decade?
 
I'ma guess shasta county, where the people that holler about mismanagement are also the ones doing the managing.
 
mean dad said:
How did they mismanage it?

And are you under the impression that two years of rain cancels the near-drought conditions of over a decade?
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It's funny, there was a headline about how LA was catching 5.5 billion gallons of runoff.

The funny thing is that in LA, an inch of rain is about 1 TRILLION gallons. (Sometime we teeny humans have issues with scope...). And we received 8-10" in the last storm.

So, we capture a lot, I guess, but there's a lot of potential there for more.
 
mean dad-

Imagine we are more on the same page than opposing views on this issue.

Your last post would make my point. Gov't promotes unfettered expansive growth. Allows a select few water barons to profit. Lots of idiotic legislation to control water usage at the individual user level and scant effort to save more via reservoirs and/or diverted run-off.

And yes, groundwater levels are beyond what a few years of abundant rainfall can replace. My contention remains. It's less about drought and more about gov't response.
 
We're venturing dangerously close to getting this thread shunted over to the PF...
 
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