Biggest Sierra snow span in more than a half century
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- Опубликовано: 28 фев 2023
- The unending bumper crop of winter snow is now bumping up against safety and the snowpack could pack a punch for spring flooding. We haven't seen his kind of snow since Nixon was in the White House.
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I have to remember every now and then that a half century ago was 1973, not 1950.
Thank you for confirming climate has not changed since 1973!!!
@@simpsons721 that has nothing to do with the comment
@@MUP-kn4np Thank you for confirming climate has not changed since 1973!!!
@@simpsons721 I’m with you, Marty, but you are offending the members of Climate Change Church. 😊
@@KWAHU93 That's not what a Karen is.... Go back to internet school.
I lived in South Tahoe one winter....glad it was not like this.
It's a cool place
I went over the dam today in Folsom at Folsom Lake, and the water line is to the trees/bushes---there is no beach showing, so the lake is full.
Been living in So. Lake Tahoe since '77' and have NEVER seen a winter or snowpack like this at Lake level. Have never seen full grown pines falling over, and snapping in half on my street. Don't care what they say, this winter is a record winter since I've lived here.
me to in California snce1951
Tons of trees feel over on the west shore after the 2016/17 season. You just got lucky it hadn't happen yet.
Wow stick around...life is never the same
@@sharonwoinarowicz half is
answered prayer, for sure.
the real problem with reservoirs is when they are full, the lake temperature stays stable compared to open exposed rock, and tree cover also keeps temps regulated, moisture stable. When in a drought like we just are getting out of fro 3 years, the lakes were so low that the bottom was exposed to sun and THAT really changed temps fast, also created a wide area around the lakes that was extra dry and hot from ambient temperature. It also got cold faster, creating violent storms, and deflecting all moisture from ever staking around. We need to focus on our forests and lakes, and make sure to keep them healthy as best as we can!
I remember the Nixon snow job.
U guys got a litlle taste of " Canada 🇨🇦" 😂
We sure did! Thankfully no negative temperatures
I live in southern BC and am quite jealous! Nothing wrong with snow that more of it wouldn't cure.
This is mother nature healing that region. Although it rarely snows in So. Cal., there has been so much drought and wildfires that snow is a great remedy.
Snow saturates into the ground and keeps it moist a lot longer than a rainstorm does.
While this record snow is a real problem for people right now, in the big picture, it will alleviate drought conditions in the coming months.
Mother nature takes care of itself.
lol cringe
Omg, shut up.
You're so clueless. Lol
More like father government
Unfortunately that’s not generally an appropriate nor accurate way to simplify what is a multidisciplinary complex topic.
Although there’s natural tendencies for climate, environment and weather to follow roughly established patterns, that doesn’t mean we can expect our manipulation of the planet to have the ‘ability’ or symbiotic relationships to allow what was previously fitting for life to bounce back as it were. Ya know
Thank you for being clear.
Yikes I hope people are safe . I really hope this at least helps with droughts.
Gotta Love Snow ❄🇨🇦
Greetings from the BIG SKY. Good to see you guys get water.
Glad no one was injured.
Hopefully, the snow continues to end the drought water levels and create an over supply of water.
Whatever happens, CAL will always have a problem until you rid yourselves of GOV Rabid NoShit, Bitch Pisslosi, traitor Swallowell & others. But, if you do, please don't send them the D.C. or anywhere else. The morgue is your best choice.
Aquifers always seem to come back far quicker than what the authorities say. We had some dry years in the NE. In the middle of an exceptionally wet spring/summer that followed we constantly heard that it would take 4-5 years of the same wetness to get the aquifers back to normal. Nope. Just took that one wet stretch.
Thank U for being clear.
I read a study in 2022 that said that scientists said that aquifers recharge twice as fast as the models predicted generally.
It's seems it's never enough just want to charge more for water it's a crazy amount of rain and snow
If recharging underground reservoirs is a problem... divert $ from other pgms to increase the recharging speed! Also start building reservoirs and flood control basins to sequester the water along the way to the ocean and save it. Give people incentives to purchase plastic rainwater tanks and capture water to be used for irrigation later.
I lived in Tahoe City during the '82 - '83 winter, and it's happening again! Not for me, though! I'll NEVER deal with it again!
Hopefully the water will clean the nasty streets in the cities.
And dump it directly into the ocean. Humans nastiness only changes location.
Its about time they let the weather be Normal!
They deliberately keep the reservoirs at a lower level to make room for the snowmelt to come later on. If they topped them off now, it might be disastrous after the warm storms in the spring. It is not an indication of drought/no drought.
Keep the faith in Californias water management, they'll figure out a way to have droughts again by the summer!
I remember reading comments a few weeks ago from folks over the fly over states talkin about how it doesn’t really snow in California.
That usually comes from folks who have never lived here.
Time to increase storage. We've had historically dry seasons followed by historically wet seasons. Reservoirs are already releasing water in anticipation of snowmelt when we could've stored as much as possible. Instead of going into conservation after only one or two dry seasons we might need to look at 5+ seasons.
They should be opening all the bypasses to flood all the empty farmland and recharge some aquifers but what do I know
Can't RAISE RATES & FEE's on the People if the state has too much water and snow ........GET IT? The controlling Socialist DemoCrat government of this state DOES !@
They need to find a way to pump excess water into ground water aquifers to replenish them.
The big question is why aren't they hiring YOU as a consultant .
@@mizzury54 Because DemoCraps only want...... Socialist Solutions ! They need those to stay in..... CONTROL !
Wow that's insane. I've been up 50 and 80 and seen some bad situations this one is right up there.
1:39 Mt. Diablo? Holy crap
Wow 😳
It’s about time!
Al Gore • no more snow
Media • Crickets
Thanks tom
Mother Nature will say hold my beer I ain’t done.
Watch it rain
i remember how cold it was back then as a kid
Centuries DONT exaggerate! We do need all we can get
Record snowfall in the Sierra's where Berkeley tests last season...so more than that?
Drought vs Reckless Mismanagement of water for billionaires who OWN the water rights
It's an old saying around here, "Whiskey's for drinkin'. Water's for fightin'."
Palisades? You must mean Squall Valley.
Three years of this hello this is how it works 2004 get it it fills Three years in a row is not what we need.
I gave a lot of serious thought to retiring in S. Lake Tahoe, but between winters like this and wildfires I just couldn't do it. Bought a lake front house in Michigan instead
But that Michigan snow?! I'll pass on that!
@@aimeeinkling Only if your within about 20 miles or so of Lake Michigan. I live about 50 miles away and I get almost no lake effect snow. This year we've probably had less than 15" of snow in total. I have a plow on an atv and I've done the snow 3 times this year, with most years I usually do it about 5 or 6 times
Its raining now, its all washing away.
The Long Winter 1880-1881
Weather is a cycle!
I think you meant 82 to 83 which was the wettest years.
I don't want to hear about conserving water for at least the next 12 months
Sounds like they got all the snow that has missed other parts of the country.
I hope later in the month it doesn’t rain where all this snow is,
This is a good thing. Water is essential.
Are they maximizing distribution to reservoirs in the LA/SanDiego areas so that orders to the Colorado River can be cancelled? Letting Mead fill up is why there was waters available during these extreme dry spells.
Warm rain is in the forecast for this week, it could melt snow at lower elevations and cause serious flooding along rivers
dont forget at&t dropping cell service for 5 days so those who were stranded could not communicate with anyone. and not to mention all of the branches and trees falling on power lines cutting power to many for 5 or more days and many still dont have power.
@@boblatkey7160 that is why who did what now?
@@pyronac1 we dealt with the same stuff down in the San Bernardino mountains of socal. Record snow, no power for 5 days in my community. We were ready. I’ve been shoveling snow for two weeks but made about $500 in the past week off small shovel jobs
Don't piss on the snowbank so it doesn't melt away too fast
2:30 "have been at" is not a phrase that someone who talks for a living should use
This is great for california,snow turns into watter in the summer and they will have a really bad sumer,
Let’s hope that this Beautiful Gift from Mother Nature is not spoiled by some Concocted Political Ploy by the prevailing Political Party in California. Water diversion games, Extra Water tax ploys. It’s always ‘something’ from them.
DemoKKKRATS destroy EVERYTHING they touch and EVERYWHERE they go....I'm confident those delusional m0r0ns can manage to COMPLETELY f@ck this gift from God/nature up in the name of their woke agenda...because, you know, "Equity!"...
“By 2010 snow will be a thing of the past in California” wake up grow up people
Floods when it melts but enjoy. The skiing
Thats a whole lot of Global Warming there.
It is, because if you took the time to learn about global climate change, you'd know that it isn't just things getting warmer. It's about larger amounts of energy (heat) being in the atmosphere and creating more extreme weather events. But hey, I'm sure your elementary school science teachers tried to get you to do the reading.
@@aimeeinkling
ROFLMAO! Yepper, a real winner here. The hotter it gets, the more it snows, it says. LOL. Thats why you find ALL the best ski resorts in Brazil, Central America, huh . Your ignorance is surpassed only by your isolation in your delusions.
Its not getting warmer. Its getting colder and colder. For four thousand years its been getting ever more cold. During this time every 1,100 years there has been a very brief warming spike, each colder than the last and each ending in a rapid drop in temperature to the next period even colder than the last. During the Holocene Optimum came the Minoan Warming. It lasted a few hundred years. When it cooled, it became even cooler than before. About 1,200 years of cooling later came the Roman Warming. A brief spike in temperature which failed to reach the highs previously followed by a rapid drop in temperature to levels even colder than before. About 1,100 years of cooling later came the Medieval Warming. A brief pause in the fall, the temperatures rose once more, but like before failed to reach the highs of the previous warming. Then came the plunge into the Little Ice Age, a period much more cold than before. After about 1,000 years of Little Ice Age came the Modern Warming. Like before the temperatures but failed to meet the highs of the previous warming. Draw a line down those very brief highs and extend it to today there we are. EXACTLY where expected and when expected. The temperatures haven't gone up in decades. We met the peak and today begin the ride down the falling side of the thousand year warming cycle. THAT is why we are digging up farms, cattle ranches, fruit orchards, gardens and whole villages frozen solid in Greenland Permafrost. PERMAFROST! Farms, orchards, fruits cannot live, cannot exist on land which never thaws, ice that never melts. Because its colder than merely a thousand years ago and its begun to get even colder once again. For the fifth year in a row its been snowing in the Sahara. Never ever before. The only thing more extreme is your ignorance. Crack a book once in a while. Learn something, would you? Look up some temperature charts that go back ten millennia. Get some perspective... and stop spewing nonsensical bull crap. Dont be such an ignorant puppet. We have entered the fall into the next Grand Solar Minimum. The Eddie Minimum is expected to accelerate the coming cooling. As this planet cools the growing seasons become shorter. As this happens harvests are reduced. Global crop failure is forecast before 2030. In the end your going to be your own worst victim. Pull you head out of the smothering stench you buried it in.
Been there, familiar since mid-80s, a magnificent natural area known for characteristic deposition blizzard-prone & accumulation relatively greater than other places in the region ...obviously origins for watersheds, exploited for winter sports, admired & exhalted for all seasons, although consider vast accumulation expected yet even I must recognize this event, that is HUGE😳! Stay safe & enjoy if you can.😁
And U won't get any or water, because we'll be water skiing on
Fool.
Make it make sense.
will any of that run off make it to lake mead or lake powell
Lake Powell and Lake Mead are fed by the Colorado River Basin. They have very high snowpack, too. They are slightly above 2019's Snow Water Equivalent with a few more storms to come. Because their levels are so low, Lake Powell could rise 70 feet this year. (Reservoirs are shaped like funnels so the first 50 feet take less water than the next 50 feet) someone said that he is thinking it will rise 100 feet. But more likely 45 to 70 feet depending on evaporation and soil moisture. Lake Mead is in a different position. They aren't allowing Lake Mead to fill until after the other reservoirs above it are full and until Lake Powell has enough water to have power at the dam. So it will likely not raise until after Lake Powell releases water to Lake Mead.
But......but......what about the 1,200 year long drought due to climate change?
"Snow." Yep, Nixon well known for consuming a lot of "snow!"
A great record setting winter in the western U.S. for sure, raising water storage in most lakes and providing huge amounts of snow for runoff after it melts. But two or three years like this are needed so the ponding basins in the valleys can resupply the ground water which has been being used incessantly during the drought. Get the ground water replenished, with full reservoirs and high snow packs and the west will be back to operating condition. This year is a great start but there is a long way to go.
I want to know the measure for that. Replenishing the aquifers is consistently identified as the true measure of whether the drought has ended and I can't for the life of me find a measurement for that. Are the aquifers 20%. 50%? How moist is the soil? We all know the snowpack we all know the reservoir levels but these alarmist keep telling us about the aquifers that they tell us nothing about. Stop treating us like children and show us the numbers in an understandable fashion. Everything I find on the internet is incomprehensible.
The climate is functioning normally. There is no climate emergency.
Build reservoirs!
Half a century 50 years...
This is what The Donner Party experienced when they got stuck.
But the important thing: are we having fun?
Have you ever been thankful for anything, Vacar? A wonderful thing is happening and you gotta go with droopy, gloomy spin. Unkind.
Why are people concerned about how long it’s been since they had this much snow??? I’ll tell you one thing, you can’t blame this on climate change!
Instead of crying about the snowfall the state & feds should be finding ways to contain this water.
The California legislature needs to pass a bill banning avalanches. 🤪
and guns ! (sarcasm)
Assault avalanChes
You need to pass an IQ test that says you’ve made it out of middle school
Don't think it's not a possibility.
How juvenile but no surprise. You're either a teenager or a very immature adult.
The curse of Kiley Ma
THE WEST NEED THE WATER!!!!
crazy, its almost as the earth slowly changes its access over time that it will somehow affect the weather.......
Drought is over period
Well, California, you wanted drought relief...
BUTT...WE WILL STILL BEE IN A SEVERE-YUP-DRAUGHT!!! LOL
WHEN IS CALIFORNIA GONNA BUILD MORE STORAGE?!?!?! Your guys water infrastructure was built and designed in the 70's for that population.... What in the 23 years of the 2000's have you built for storage?
No, California is more concerned about social justice issues
Pipeline from Canada?
Kinda makes me wonder if SCoPeX expirements are happening or happened on a larger scale than what's been talked about
0nly to let it run off into the ocean.
But what about muhy cliemate change
He said snowyest October?????????????????????????????????????????
why dont you tell all the agricultural farmers in california to stop wasting 8 gallons of water on one almond
there is more coming people rain a lot of it this spring and one more snow storm you will be at your 80% if not 100% i know dont ask how but i know
Knock it off.
Where's all that global warming???
Global warming Hoax
Bs .........quit dumping our water out into the Bay area
But then how can we cry drought and force u into climate safe apartments and tax u into poverty?
Must be all that co2 that warmed the planet
Spoken like a true repub. But, if ignorance is truly bliss, we need more smiles, or at least silence. Out.
Actually, you're correct. Warmer temps cause more ocean evaporation because warm air holds more moisture and when it hits higher elevations, it gets colder and falls as snow or rain. Simple. It's called the water cycle.
@@jacquesblaque7728 ok libtard keep on praying to "climate change" I'm not religious myself.
@@spocksvulcanbrain so as a result climate stays the same because there's still snow and winters right? So what's all the fuss about then?
@@V8_screw_electric_cars OMG, you can't be serious! You can't keep adding a gas to the system that will eventually overtake the Earth's ability to stay at that temperature. Sure local patterns might be OK, but globally they are always going to go up. It doesn't matter what we do, as long as we pull fossil fuels from the ground, we will be adding to the global temperature. Until we find an energy source that meets all our needs without burning something, this problem will only get worse. You can't change the laws of physics, no matter how much politicians, laypeople or the delusional say otherwise. Pull fuel from the ground and burn it ===> Increased global temperatures. It's quite simple math.
1847 was real!?
I hope it washes California out to the ocean💞💕😂😂😂🙏
B.S. nothing will satisfy these people, 3 more years like this and we might be out of the drought. Pleeeease.
have you listen to what he said? There are massive deficit in aquifers which take years to replenish.
Do the math. Try to comprehend the excess that has been drained from ancient aquifers. The central valley floor is not going to spring back with one year
Thats a lot of global warming on the ground there
Drought drought, drought, flood, flood, flood, drought drought, drought, flood, flood, flood, drought drought, drought, flood, flood, flood, drought drought, drought, flood, flood, flood, drought drought, drought, flood, flood, flood, Main Street media reporting the weather. LOL.
wait I thought there was global warming......wait there isn't its called weather
Global warming is based on climate, not weather. I wish you the best in your efforts to complete a grade school level education.
If its happened before its not global warming,,
After commercial break, the impending doom caused by Global Warming..
what often follows droughts? I learned this watching non politically charged documentaries. Actual documentaries.
Tom looks like he should have retired 10 years ago.
Look at all that global warming - WOW !!!
It’s that daggum global warming!! 😂😂😂😂
I wonder if you will need gas motor vehicles to clear the roads ?
no they electric motor vehicles, more torque
Climate alarmists told us snow would be a thing of the past. Hahaha!
Meanwhile they’re sniffing their farts to conserve carbon
@@KWAHU93 And to try and stay warm.
Um, if that's your summation of climate change, you have zero understanding of the complexity of weather.
Please try to use that organ in your skull. Smh ...
California getting all the rain snow it so desperately needs? Thank you climate change!! Please people release more carbon!