Historic Snowfall From Atmospheric Rivers In California Starting To Melt, Increasing Flood Dangers

Chad Hecht, Hydrometeorological Research Analyst for UCSD, discusses how the historic snowpack is increasing the flood dangers in California. #foxweather #weather #snowmelt #atmosphericriver

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[socalpal]

If only Sacramento politicians had built the reservoirs that they promised 20 years ago. Too bad Environmentalists stopped them.

[fermiticus]

Panic everybody...the well is drying up...
Panic everybody...looks like the well is gonna overflow...

[thejdmdude-fviq]

After this historical rains and snow pack. If we still have drought after this gift .our government sends billions to Ukraine but wouldn't spend that money to build more water reservoirs shame

[rjdfvji]

When do we admit that we don’t know sh*t about the weather and climate in the americas.

[elizabethhoeppner]

California should talk to people who know about real solutions.

[stevekenilworth]

California drought: Past dry periods have lasted more than 200 years, scientists say. California’s current drought is being billed as the driest period in the state’s recorded rainfall history. But scientists who study the West’s long-term climate patterns say the state has been parched for much longer stretches. And they worry that the “megadroughts” typical of California’s earlier history could come again.. The two most severe megadroughts make the Dust Bowl of the 1930s look tame: a 240-year-long drought that started in 850 and, 50 years after the conclusion of that one, another that stretched at least 180 years. “We continue to run California as if the longest drought we are ever going to encounter is about seven years, ” said Scott Stine, a professor of geography and environmental studies at Cal State East Bay. “We’re living in a dream world.” The longest droughts of the 20th century, what Californians think of as severe, occurred from 1987 to 1992 and from 1928 to 1934. Both, Stine said, are minor compared to the ancient droughts of 850 to 1090 and 1140 to 1320.

[Greatdanezoey]

Sad fox owner isnt into real news droping tucker

[AndrewSpurgin]

If you're not familiar with this, see presentation below...

The Pacific Ocean began to pound central California on Christmas Eve in 1861 and continued virtually unabated for 43 days. The deluges quickly transformed rivers running down from the Sierra Nevada mountains along the state’s eastern border into raging torrents that swept away entire communities and mining settlements.

IF this happens again (predicted every 100/200 years or so), it would pretty much wipe out all the Inland Valley, & much more. The atmospheric rivers, akin to 15 Mississippi Rivers, would leave Sacramento & the Inland Valley under 20' to 30' of water.

Severe flooding is happening as we speak. Tulare Lake was the largest lake west of the Mississsippi until it was somewhat drained & dried up... now it's back completely flooding the same area again. Vast swaths of farmland have already been inundated, with scientists predicting the lake could exist for two years and continue to fill as runoff from an unprecedented amount of snow in the southern Sierra melts. This is, & will, effect dairy farms output & a great deal of produce that simply won't be able to grow.

Presentation of the great flood of California 1861/62:

[TheSilverSphincter]

To bad our forests weren't in place to store all this water for us instead of have drain off into the ocean taking more topsoil with it

[sswulffable]

Hopefully this might wash the streets of Needles and Human Feces to the Ocean to infect the ecosystem and poison Surfers ....

[elvirareis]

REVELATION 12:12
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF THE
LAST DAYS?
LUKE 21:25-28
ROARING WAVES
MATTHEW 24:7
EARTHQUAKES IN DIVERS PLACES
JOHN 3:16, 17
BILLY GRAHAM ONCE SAID "ONLY
BELIEVE."
GET YOUR HOUSE IN ORDER BY PRAYER.

[elizabethhoeppner]

Get some beavers in your river valleys.

[unitedwestanddividedwefall]

They have the same temps as my area (Indiana)
for the next wk or 2, lake Michigan right above us.

[GizaDog]

Fear! Propaganda by the talking heads.

[mariangieburgos]

Is good to know what's happening in countries.

[bobbyotay]

Hey where's Tucker Carlson? I guess somebody has a problem with taking one for the team.

[halspencer]

Let's take a good look at the snow pak measuring trees stuck variously in remote positions in the Southern High Sierra. Haven't seen anything about them - but they were utilized in the High Sierra to measure winter-time snow packs via helicopters or snow shoes. Remember seeing them while hiking the John Muir Trail in the 1970s