California Drought

California Desert

California has been in a seven year drought.  The politicians, fear-mongering environmentalist global warming climate changers and the Deserve Generation who devoutly believe they are entitled to: "Free college, fame, fortune, corner office, dope and sex" have all been milking it for every possible whine they can squeeze from "No rain, we're all gonna die!" as Jerry Brown wallows in pseudo science and claims our state budget is balanced when he is another two billion short. They have been strangely silent on the following release:

From the California Dept. of Water Resources

Northern Sierra Precipitation Sets Water Year Record Atmospheric Rivers Pushed Total to 89.7 Inches since October 1, 2016

SACRAMENTO – Never in nearly a century of Department of Water Resources (DWR) record keeping has so much precipitation fallen in the northern Sierra in a water year. DWR reported today that 89.7 inches of precipitation – rain and snowmelt – has been recorded by the eight weather stations it has monitored continuously since 1920 from Shasta Lake to the American River basin.

Source: https://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/precipapp/get8SIPrecipIndex.action

Today’s total surpassed the previous record of 88.5 inches recorded in the entirety of Water Year 1983. The region’s annual average is 50 inches. California traditionally receives 30 to 50 percent of its annual precipitation from atmospheric rivers (ARs), long and relatively narrow “rivers in the sky” laden with moisture that blow in from the Pacific. The West Coast experienced 46 ARs between October 1, 2016 and March 31, 2017 the first six months of Water Year 2017. 

Nearly one-third of the total were “strong” (13) or “extreme” (3) ARs. DWR’s 5-station San Joaquin index is keeping pace with Water Year 1983’s record total of 77.4 inches in the region. Today’s total of 68.2 inches among the stations is 194 percent of the average precipitation recorded by today’s date during the water year and far exceeds the San Joaquin annual average of 40.8 inches.

The six-station index in the Tulare Basin, often called ground zero of California’s five-year drought, which officially ended in most of California on April 7, has recorded 178 percent of the amount of precipitation that normally falls by this date during an average water year. Total precipitation so far is 45 inches, about 1.5 times the average annual precipitation of 29.3 inches in the basin. The snow water equivalent of California’s snowpack is far above average throughout the Sierra Nevada — 176 percent of the April 13 average. DWR will conduct its final snow survey of the season on May 1 at Phillips Station in the Sierra 90 miles east of Sacramento.

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We have ski resorts that are now talking about being open into July! The snowpack is said to have enough water in it for three years if our reservoirs can hold everything that comes down, which is doubtful as Jerry has used all the money to build his "Desert Express."  We are wondering what kind of emergency the elected ruling class will make of this as they seem only able to get excited about emergencies and building new bureaus to deal with them.

Life goes on in the California drought.  Help me out of here, God!

Adrian Vance