California rain

[buckbuck]

I know that California is having problems with how the rain came so fast but I am wondering if anyone has heard if this was enough to help the drought situation. Will the lakes fill up?

 

[PEARCE]

They need weeks and weeks of rain like they're having now to fill all the lakes up to capacity.

 

[OrangeTJ]

We'll take any rain we can get! Our local reservoir (Folsom Lake) is up 9 feet in the last week. It has another 70 feet to go to be all the way full, but it's not often full. Another 30 feet of rise would make for a solid boating season next year. I am hearing reports that Lake Oroville is up over 30 feet. That is A LOT of water and that part of the state just got a ton of rain. More rain in the forecast over the next couple of weeks, which is great new.

 

[lashburn1]

Wow!! That's a great improvement!! Any other reports of lakes rising?

 

[Matt Phillips]

Lake shasta is up about 15 feet...but there's still 150 to go.

Here's a great site for California reservours...
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/resapp/getResGraphsMain.action

And another on shasta in particular
http://www.shastalake.com/shastalake/

Enjoy...

 

[Freezer41]

Yes, Oroville is up 30ft over the low from 11/14. Shasta is up 25 since 11/29. Folsom still looks like this though even with the increase.

 

[lashburn1]

Yes, Oroville is up 30ft over the low from 11/14. Shasta is up 25 since 11/29. Folsom still looks like this though even with the increase.

Will these lakes benifit from any snow pack from the last storm or do the just get the Rain runoff?

 

[Ronnie]

I've only heard of Folsom's status here in S.F. Bay but in related news the winds were so high at Lake Tahoe several people donned wetsuits and surfed it. My wife's coworker and 14 year old son were on the news in the surf there. Locally, I got a call from my son's school district on Wednesday night, they left the following message, "due to the pending storms classes for all schools in our district and all after school programs are cancelled tomorrow." I went to school in this area without ever experiencing a rained out school day.

 

[BigN8]

And Dallas catches hell from the Yankees for canceling school when it snows 2"!

 

[Freezer41]

Will these lakes benifit from any snow pack from the last storm or do the just get the Rain runoff?

Oh yeah helps a lot!

 

[OrangeTJ]

I was in Tahoe on Friday and Saturday. Really disappointing to see how little snow fell up there in this last storm. Yes, there's a bit of snow going over the mountains on 50, but not much at all. Essentially none on the ground at the south end of Lake Tahoe.

 

[KXCam22]

I have green grass in my yard up here. Cam.

 

[BigN8]

I was in Tahoe on Friday and Saturday. Really disappointing to see how little snow fell up there in this last storm. Yes, there's a bit of snow going over the mountains on 50, but not much at all. Essentially none on the ground at the south end of Lake Tahoe.

Damn! I thought Tahoe was going to have the snow of the century out of this!

 

[Ronnie]

I just got back from Boreal ski resort near truckee, at about 7k feet elevation, they got 20" of new snow from Thursday's Storm.