“The higher winter snowpack won’t make a significant impact on the record 1200 year drought”. A single year of 150% of median snowpack in Colorado basin isn’t, on its own, going to make much difference. Listen carefully to this report and ignore all of the discussion of California and Idaho/Montana - those areas don’t drain into the Colorado.
The west has been hotter 90% of the time past 2,000 years! There is no mega drought got rattlesnakes and tumbleweeds outside my house live in a desert!
@@grasm03 Really, Ya take how many Millions of People and stick them in the Middle of the Deseret, and now Ya try to figure out how to Supply them all with Water.....Come On Man!
Too bad there wasn't a better way to divert or capture the excess in California, they are releasing water in the reservoirs there do to being over capacity.
Okay let me say this about that. Earlier today I commented on this post saying that California was allocated 75% of daily usage of the Colorado river. According to the figures at Google I was incorrect. Their pie chart showed California's total usage at 27%. That is still the highest percentage of all the states and Mexico that are bound to it. I believe the data to be incomplete. Six months ago California's alloted usage was 75%. I know this because six months ago my home state of Nevada was at an alloted 4%. The graph now shows Nevada at 2%. I know this top be correct because Nevada was warned by the Fed that we would lose that two percent and we did at the first of the year 2023. I believe this new graph is using the current atmospheric rivers/devastating rain and snowfall as a constant. This way the number's will reflect that the drought is over. That could not be any farther from the truth. The actual current levels of Lake Powell and Lake Mead are in Dangerous levels. Lake Mead/Hoover Dam are at critical and edging closer to dead pool. The way above average rain and snowfall for this season should keep Lake Mead from receding any further. Okay off my soap box. If you want to follow the rest of the story look at my comment from about 20 hours ago. It goes into detail of what should be all of southwestern America to know.
It matters in securing ground water. California doesn't have enough reservoir capacity to deal with their cyclical drought/flood history given their population?
you’d think they’d pump it from cali back to Mead…. they have no problem taking tho, that would fix 2 problems, their flooding and the raise the lake… but that would just make sense
But I'm not quite understanding is even if the snowpack is at 200% this year and the water in the Colorado River and the lakes has been constantly going down why do they think that it stopped the drought it only bought time for maybe one more year especially if there's no snow next year nor the year after that nor the year after that really Way too many people not enough reservoirs
If that doesn’t work out for you a politician would be a goof second choice. Performance, honesty and making good choices doesn’t see to matter either.
Hi, great pictures. But the title is miss leading. The Colorado River is not being being "reborn". The crisis of overuse still applies. A greater threat looms. In 2026 the 100 year old River Compact expires. 7 states and Baja California are going to have to decide how to share the highly impacted river system. All science will tell us that it would require 4 winters as we have had to refill Lake Powell and Lake Mead. While the rain was welcomed in so many ways, it does not address the real political issues. Unfortunately, the rain will put people back to sleep about the truth of the situation.
There is no way that this year in California will be the wettest. The great flood of 1861-62 was much larger and covered most of California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada and New Mexico. Sacramento was under so much water that they had to temporarily move the Capital to San Francisco.
I live 20 miles inland between SF and L.A. We’ve gotten 51 inches of rain so far this year and we’ve gotten 39 of those 51 inches from January 9th to now. Before the rain season started all of our lakes were at 23% capacity or lower. All of those lakes are now at full capacity and their spillways have been running for the last two weeks. I’d say we’ve had a pretty good year so far. I’m not sure about 1861.
The floods in the 1860s occurred because there were no reservoirs and terrible forestry management stopped the sponge effect for water. Not because of the highest amount of rain.
A good place would be to build millions of farm ponds that would absorb the water locally to raise the water table by allowing seepage. They need to build structures to slow the water, and allow it to become ground water. I'm sure the engineers can figure out an intelligent way to do that, so all the water doesn't get sent right back to the OCEAN.
@@Pinkybum There has been plenty of warning that Powell and Mead do not collect enough water to keep up with how the water they collect has been used. How long do you drive your car with the oil light on, knowing that when it runs out the engine is destroyed.
Lake Mead is 182 ft below full. The level about 1 INCH in last 24 hours. The only thing that fills Mead and Powell is the snowpack in parts of UT, COLO, WYO
If desalination plants were allowed in coastal snob areas, California could capture much of the rain runoff thats allowed to flow into the Pacific ocean.
Take this year's snowpack and do the same thing for the next 10 years and maybe the area will recover. However, just remember, in those 10 years the population taking the water will double.
Everyone talking about how many more winters we need to refill our reservoirs. I think we need more pandemics to save our planet from the already rampant overpopulation. We will fight wars over the most basic resources in the future and yet most people continue reproduce like rabbits. It’s not sustainable.
Well maybe for one or two years then what this snow doesn't happen every year and next year California says we're only a 50% of what good the 200% do there's no real amount reservoirs lol
California's population has increase around 60% since 1983. How much has their reservoir capacity gone up? ZERO but I bet they've spent millions studying the issue.
@@jimijefferson82 I didn't rely on memory, went to the stats and did the math BECAUSE I knew there would be AHs that would suggest I was wrong because I was 1 or 2% off. Does that AH shoe fit JJ?
@@jimijefferson82PS: I don't see that I quoted anyone when I ESTIMATED "60%" (quoting myself). Feel free to check my math. I'm sure I didn't get it exactly right. Regardless, There's a lot more people sucking from the reservoirs than in 1983 let alone when the Hoover Damn was built.
@@nlamorte90 The "publicly funded" myth is TOTAL DECEPTION! They are fully funded by the Royal Institute of International affairs. They dont need a penny of "donated funds".
Just saw vid of Oroville dam spilling water on new spillway. All of these high snow levels in various mountain locations, may/will cause local flooding. BUT, these individual locations are small parts of the overall Colorado River watershed. Has anyone calculated how much all of this water volume POTENTIALLY totals in relation to Lake Powell and Lake Mead water levels? I haven't done the math, but I expect that even if every drop came to Lake Mead, it would not be returned to "full" status requiring increased outflow to prevent overtopping. Unfortunately, I would not be surprised to learn that the water (mis)-managers at lake mead will start spilling "extra" water "just in case", in theory, to prevent Lake Mead over capacity. Even though it is not mathematically possible without a great deal of additional excess spring rainfall.
Judging drought intensity by Lakes Powell and Mead is folly. The Colorado River is constipated by 15 dams and silt laden reservoirs. This much manipulation has destroyed watersheds which are more drought resistant than reservoirs.
OK let me say this about that. Lake Mead needs 150% snow pack this season just to keep the level where it is now. Any excess will be a very slight increase in the dangerous level at this point in time. Hoover Dam will go dead pool by 2027 if the water taken and used by Southern California does not depreciate significantly. They are allocated well over 27% of the total usage of the Colorado River daily. Yes now that California has been hit with a deluge of atmospheric rivers causing flooding and forcing the damns to release the excess through the spillway. All of the water not stored in reservoirs will end up in the pacific ocean. The 200 % snowpack will melt and either flood California if it melts quickly and over filling. Then be sent to the pacific through the spillway. The only thing that California will benefit from is full lakes and reservoirs. That has no bearing whatsoever to the usage of the Colorado River. That water is used mainly for agricultural purposes. Some drinking water sent to local reservoirs in and around Southern California. The truth is that most of the precipitation we are having right now won't help at all if in the summer months we go back to drought conditions in the Rocky Mountains of Utah Arizona and Colorado. Hoover Dam will go dead pool and Southern California will lose the power being supplied by the water turbine generators. Know this not one volt of power from either Lake Powell or Lake Mead goes to Nevada. Arizona and California have the Federal mandate of said power. Try to charge your EVs without that very huge source of energy. Know this ad well The Colorado River doesn't flow into California is is pumped via the Colorado River aqueduct. No water supply to the aqueduct no water to Southern California and the tens of thousands of acres of produce and cattle/dairy farms and ranches. No water and no power means no food produced for millions of people. Let me be clear if the Fed's does not work out a solution we will be screwed 😢
@@susanlovesjava4961 this was my mistake from data I found six months ago. This does not change the course of the Colorado River if the drought continues and nothing is done to capture and hold water at the Hoover Dam.
I marvel at pundits forecasting the failure of this river which drains off snow melts as it has done for the past 6,000 years. AND it will continue to do so for the next 6,000 years also.
It was just a couple years ago that they vastly overestimated the amount of water contained in the snowpack and how much would ultimately join the flowing water in to reservoirs.
You know it's funny I just see living north of La is sucking all the water maybe fill a few less swimming pools and dig some deep holes to put some water in cuz I can tell you you're the one sucking the water out of here you wasted you fill up these pools you let a lot of water go out I see what you do eventually you're going to end up short
80% of California water goes to agriculture and a good bit of NorCal water is sold to bottlers. Maybe it's time to rethink stuff, because SoCal is not sucking all the water. Just some of it.
Talk about cherry picking facts,,,, goodness. As Udall said,, don't count your chickens until they have hatched. The peak snow pack is still a month away in most locations,,,, and the % above average INCLUDES the averages of the past 20 years of drought. If you lay this snow pack, in most locations, against the averages of 40 years ago,, or 50 years ago,,,, this is just an average winter,, except in California. All the rest of the west,,,, good to see an increase,,, but you will need good winters like this for 10 years before you can entirely refill the lakes, It is just a welcome small bit of news. The over use of the river,,, must NOT be allowed to restart.
If you look eve a little bit at the pictures presented, you can plainly see that this is not a resolved issue by a LONG way. The talking voice keeps on babbling next to useless factoids, that mean next to nothing to the layman. They are going to need several years of this to get it back to where it was. I am also sure that several years of weather like this will have a huge negative impact on the region too...
How many million acre feet will flow freely into Mexico, while the Salton Sea continues to dry up ? Maybe what this country needs is a good negotiator.
"1200 year drought..." So I'm guessing we're gonna keep going back in time to make our end-of-humanity predictions stay on course.
No worries then, the drought is over. 👍
“The higher winter snowpack won’t make a significant impact on the record 1200 year drought”. A single year of 150% of median snowpack in Colorado basin isn’t, on its own, going to make much difference. Listen carefully to this report and ignore all of the discussion of California and Idaho/Montana - those areas don’t drain into the Colorado.
The sw is not in a "1,250-year-drought". Please stop saying this. Current drought started in 1983
I think he meant the worst since 1250 years ago?
good catch. but he said 1,200
It's the climate change radicals trying to make a normal problem seem huge.
Of course there’s been a 1200 year drought, it’s a desert! You see any trees growing there?
The west has been hotter 90% of the time past 2,000 years! There is no mega drought got rattlesnakes and tumbleweeds outside my house live in a desert!
What a gift. I hope every atate agrees on a plan to conserve and prepare.
lol nope
Unless people wise up and start being smarter with how they use water it won’t matter how much snowpack Utah and Colorado get
Yes water usage is important. Although the usage of normal people isn't the issue, how agriculture and industries use water is the bigger problem.
@@jamesmancuso3666 So just use more water from the Waste Removal Plants to water your Crops......whats that, it makes your Tummy Hurt?>?
@@webefree3125 what are you trying to say?
@@grasm03 Really, Ya take how many Millions of People and stick them in the Middle of the Deseret, and now Ya try to figure out how to Supply them all with Water.....Come On Man!
@@webefree3125 the issue isn't water supply. It's what they use water for. We get enough water.
Too bad there wasn't a better way to divert or capture the excess in California, they are releasing water in the reservoirs there do to being over capacity.
Okay let me say this about that. Earlier today I commented on this post saying that California was allocated 75% of daily usage of the Colorado river. According to the figures at Google I was incorrect. Their pie chart showed California's total usage at 27%. That is still the highest percentage of all the states and Mexico that are bound to it. I believe the data to be incomplete. Six months ago California's alloted usage was 75%. I know this because six months ago my home state of Nevada was at an alloted 4%. The graph now shows Nevada at 2%. I know this top be correct because Nevada was warned by the Fed that we would lose that two percent and we did at the first of the year 2023. I believe this new graph is using the current atmospheric rivers/devastating rain and snowfall as a constant. This way the number's will reflect that the drought is over. That could not be any farther from the truth. The actual current levels of Lake Powell and Lake Mead are in Dangerous levels. Lake Mead/Hoover Dam are at critical and edging closer to dead pool. The way above average rain and snowfall for this season should keep Lake Mead from receding any further. Okay off my soap box. If you want to follow the rest of the story look at my comment from about 20 hours ago. It goes into detail of what should be all of southwestern America to know.
Runs dry before it hits the sea of Cortez.
Mother Nature "Here, have my water."
Sending positive vibes.
Apparently, those are outdated, 19 hours 1 like. Thinking positively is so lonely.
Slow melt, fast melt it makes no difference in capturing the water that's what a reservoir does.
Less evaporation as snowpack then sitting in a reservoir
It matters in securing ground water. California doesn't have enough reservoir capacity to deal with their cyclical drought/flood history given their population?
@@lesmoore3638 you are absolutely correct
@@russellleavitt4449 Twice a day. :)
@@lesmoore3638 So cut the population in half, anyone with a birthday on an odd day has to walk 500 miles west.
you’d think they’d pump it from cali back to Mead…. they have no problem taking tho, that would fix 2 problems, their flooding and the raise the lake… but that would just make sense
Yes should pipeline it over
But I'm not quite understanding is even if the snowpack is at 200% this year and the water in the Colorado River and the lakes has been constantly going down why do they think that it stopped the drought it only bought time for maybe one more year especially if there's no snow next year nor the year after that nor the year after that really Way too many people not enough reservoirs
I want to be a weatherman when I grow up! That way I can be WRONG 90% of the time and still get a check! 😂😂😂
If that doesn’t work out for you a politician would be a goof second choice. Performance, honesty and making good choices doesn’t see to matter either.
Judging from that statement you’re already getting a check for being a loser…..
Hi, great pictures.
But the title is miss leading. The Colorado River is not being being "reborn". The crisis of overuse still applies. A greater threat looms. In 2026 the 100 year old River Compact expires. 7 states and Baja California are going to have to decide how to share the highly impacted river system. All science will tell us that it would require 4 winters as we have had to refill Lake Powell and Lake Mead. While the rain was welcomed in so many ways, it does not address the real political issues. Unfortunately, the rain will put people back to sleep about the truth of the situation.
As long as Dems run it, it is sure to fail.
but but it will take YEARS to recover..said the climate cultists.
in just 3 months AZ is not even considered " dry" by USDS maps.
There is no way that this year in California will be the wettest. The great flood of 1861-62 was much larger and covered most of California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada and New Mexico. Sacramento was under so much water that they had to temporarily move the Capital to San Francisco.
The statewide snowpack is near the all time record. The southern Sierras already passed the all time record. There is a lot of flooding statewide.
Clap clap clap everyone is super interested in what happened in 1861 to 62. Like it has anything to do with today...
@@alexpumpkin4551😂
I live 20 miles inland between SF and L.A. We’ve gotten 51 inches of rain so far this year and we’ve gotten 39 of those 51 inches from January 9th to now. Before the rain season started all of our lakes were at 23% capacity or lower. All of those lakes are now at full capacity and their spillways have been running for the last two weeks. I’d say we’ve had a pretty good year so far. I’m not sure about 1861.
The floods in the 1860s occurred because there were no reservoirs and terrible forestry management stopped the sponge effect for water. Not because of the highest amount of rain.
If only we had somewhere to save some of that currently excessive amount of water for that dry year we know is coming....
A good place would be to build millions of farm ponds that would absorb the water locally to raise the water table by allowing seepage. They need to build structures to slow the water, and allow it to become ground water. I'm sure the engineers can figure out an intelligent way to do that, so all the water doesn't get sent right back to the OCEAN.
politicians have been promising but nothing comes of it....
That's what Lake Powell and Lake Mead are for.
@@sukhjinder71 California has begun doing this with some of the releases to make room for the huge melting soon to come.
@@Pinkybum There has been plenty of warning that Powell and Mead do not collect enough water to keep up with how the water they collect has been used. How long do you drive your car with the oil light on, knowing that when it runs out the engine is destroyed.
Watch the outflows and inflow of mead…..when it gets high inflows the charts also show high outflows……I think we have some manipulation going on here
They keep downflow high-85-90 percent. Imperial Valley, Lake Havasu, Baja.
@@poco1174 you realize they only bumped it when inflows came up right? And everything south of it is full. Seems a little off to me
Love the shots of the goosenecks (San Juan river)
Lake Mead is 182 ft below full. The level about 1 INCH in last 24 hours. The only thing that fills Mead and Powell is the snowpack in parts of UT, COLO, WYO
If desalination plants were allowed in coastal snob areas, California could capture much of the rain runoff thats allowed to flow into the Pacific ocean.
Take this year's snowpack and do the same thing for the next 10 years and maybe the area will recover. However, just remember, in those 10 years the population taking the water will double.
no way CA population is 80M in 10 years
Where has the population ever doubled in 10 years? Just stop wasting water.
Everyone talking about how many more winters we need to refill our reservoirs. I think we need more pandemics to save our planet from the already rampant overpopulation. We will fight wars over the most basic resources in the future and yet most people continue reproduce like rabbits. It’s not sustainable.
Greetings from the BIG SKY. It's good to see you guys get water down there.
It's coming from the polar land melting 😢
Well maybe for one or two years then what this snow doesn't happen every year and next year California says we're only a 50% of what good the 200% do there's no real amount reservoirs lol
@@kevinflabouyfishing5739
78yr old countyboy. Has there been any studies done for water loss to ground faults in the reservoir basin??
I've wondered this myself.
❤️👏🏾👍🏾
California's population has increase around 60% since 1983. How much has their reservoir capacity gone up?
ZERO but I bet they've spent millions studying the issue.
California population has went down
@@carlmiller2887 Since 1983? No, 54% increase.
@@lesmoore3638 What happened to 60%, your first quote?
@@jimijefferson82 I didn't rely on memory, went to the stats and did the math BECAUSE I knew there would be AHs that would suggest I was wrong because I was 1 or 2% off. Does that AH shoe fit JJ?
@@jimijefferson82PS: I don't see that I quoted anyone when I ESTIMATED "60%" (quoting myself). Feel free to check my math. I'm sure I didn't get it exactly right. Regardless, There's a lot more people sucking from the reservoirs than in 1983 let alone when the Hoover Damn was built.
It will be filled up, thus saith the Lord!
Actually the current drought cycle started around 1998.
Citing NPR is ridiculous, they are 100% deceivers!
how? because they're funded by public donations?
And Fox News is to be trusted? When Murdoch admitted in court his talking heads lied about the so called big lie?
That’s why I only watch Fox News.
@@nlamorte90 The "publicly funded" myth is TOTAL DECEPTION! They are fully funded by the Royal Institute of International affairs. They dont need a penny of "donated funds".
@@nlamorte90 Mostly large corporations.
If we could just get rid of those weather creations by the weather machine.
Where does all the water go that cali jus got....can we cut cali off from Nevada lake mead since they still melting
Just saw vid of Oroville dam spilling water on new spillway.
All of these high snow levels in various mountain locations, may/will cause local flooding. BUT, these individual locations are small parts of the overall Colorado River watershed.
Has anyone calculated how much all of this water volume POTENTIALLY totals in relation to Lake Powell and Lake Mead water levels? I haven't done the math, but I expect that even if every drop came to Lake Mead, it would not be returned to "full" status requiring increased outflow to prevent overtopping.
Unfortunately, I would not be surprised to learn that the water (mis)-managers at lake mead will start spilling "extra" water "just in case", in theory, to prevent Lake Mead over capacity. Even though it is not mathematically possible without a great deal of additional excess spring rainfall.
Judging drought intensity by Lakes Powell and Mead is folly. The Colorado River is constipated by 15 dams and silt laden reservoirs. This much manipulation has destroyed watersheds which are more drought resistant than reservoirs.
It’s not over yet folks. Still a lot of work left to do.
The California floods are a direct result of recharging the reservoirs 3 to 4 months prematurely.
it is verry bad that the water do not moves
OK let me say this about that. Lake Mead needs 150% snow pack this season just to keep the level where it is now. Any excess will be a very slight increase in the dangerous level at this point in time. Hoover Dam will go dead pool by 2027 if the water taken and used by Southern California does not depreciate significantly. They are allocated well over 27% of the total usage of the Colorado River daily. Yes now that California has been hit with a deluge of atmospheric rivers causing flooding and forcing the damns to release the excess through the spillway. All of the water not stored in reservoirs will end up in the pacific ocean. The 200 % snowpack will melt and either flood California if it melts quickly and over filling. Then be sent to the pacific through the spillway. The only thing that California will benefit from is full lakes and reservoirs. That has no bearing whatsoever to the usage of the Colorado River. That water is used mainly for agricultural purposes. Some drinking water sent to local reservoirs in and around Southern California. The truth is that most of the precipitation we are having right now won't help at all if in the summer months we go back to drought conditions in the Rocky Mountains of Utah Arizona and Colorado. Hoover Dam will go dead pool and Southern California will lose the power being supplied by the water turbine generators. Know this not one volt of power from either Lake Powell or Lake Mead goes to Nevada. Arizona and California have the Federal mandate of said power. Try to charge your EVs without that very huge source of energy. Know this ad well
The Colorado River doesn't flow into California is is pumped via the Colorado River aqueduct. No water supply to the aqueduct no water to Southern California and the tens of thousands of acres of produce and cattle/dairy farms and ranches. No water and no power means no food produced for millions of people. Let me be clear if the Fed's does not work out a solution we will be screwed 😢
California doesn't get 70%.
@@susanlovesjava4961 yes it does
@@russellleavitt4449 No. California is allocated 4.4 MAF of the 16.5 MAF total. That's 27%. Stop spreading lies.
In the hands of the Feds. What could go wrong?
@@susanlovesjava4961 this was my mistake from data I found six months ago. This does not change the course of the Colorado River if the drought continues and nothing is done to capture and hold water at the Hoover Dam.
Aquifers are the bigger concern.
Don't release water for hydroelectric power.
I marvel at pundits forecasting the failure of this river which drains off snow melts as it has done for the past 6,000 years. AND it will continue to do so for the next 6,000 years also.
150 percent of normal for colorado snow pack is meaningless. Often hits that this time of year.
Agreed. When I don't see the white watermarked walls from Lake Mead, thats when I know its good
It was just a couple years ago that they vastly overestimated the amount of water contained in the snowpack and how much would ultimately join the flowing water in to reservoirs.
You know it's funny I just see living north of La is sucking all the water maybe fill a few less swimming pools and dig some deep holes to put some water in cuz I can tell you you're the one sucking the water out of here you wasted you fill up these pools you let a lot of water go out I see what you do eventually you're going to end up short
80% of California water goes to agriculture and a good bit of NorCal water is sold to bottlers. Maybe it's time to rethink stuff, because SoCal is not sucking all the water. Just some of it.
Talk about cherry picking facts,,,, goodness. As Udall said,, don't count your chickens until they have hatched. The peak snow pack is still a month away in most locations,,,, and the % above average INCLUDES the averages of the past 20 years of drought. If you lay this snow pack, in most locations, against the averages of 40 years ago,, or 50 years ago,,,, this is just an average winter,, except in California. All the rest of the west,,,, good to see an increase,,, but you will need good winters like this for 10 years before you can entirely refill the lakes, It is just a welcome small bit of news. The over use of the river,,, must NOT be allowed to restart.
Joke 1200 year drought and we are expected to take the rest of this report seriously?
damms gone kil us all
Daisy, what country were you born?
water hite the airia, shure if it not moves , bad, verry bad
If you look eve a little bit at the pictures presented, you can plainly see that this is not a resolved issue by a LONG way. The talking voice keeps on babbling next to useless factoids, that mean next to nothing to the layman. They are going to need several years of this to get it back to where it was. I am also sure that several years of weather like this will have a huge negative impact on the region too...
How many million acre feet will flow freely into Mexico, while the Salton Sea continues to dry up ? Maybe what this country needs is a good negotiator.
The salton sea isn’t even a real sea. It was an accidental lake in the desert.
We had a “good negotiator.”
This is all BS!