I don't know so much about storing water, but I personally think lawns have to go. I realize residential use is a small part of the pie, but it just doesn't make sense to have lawns in some areas. I think easing the way for drought-tolerant landscaping would be a good mentality shift. That didn't answer your question, but it was gnawing at me. Ease environmental regulations and build more storage. We can gradually reincorporate those regulations if we need, but it should be system reset to a degree so people can build.
Using berms and swales in the mountains will slow the water movement down and hopefully get some to soak in. How many hundreds of abandoned mines are in the Mother Lode that could be used for water storage? And perhaps most important, stop allowing residential construction and trailer parks to be with the initial flood plains of every river. The flood plains serve a purpose and look at all of the wasted money spent in protecting or rebuilding in those areas that are always going to flood.
What you mean by "rethink," ABC10? And then with such nebulousness ask "Is there a better way?" Are you guys out of of your gourd? We were in a 17 (SEVENTEEN} year drought! We get 1 (ONE) year of wet weather....and you suddenly feel propelled to ASK such lunacy. Get a grip ABC10!
when i lived in the desert in az. i would get flooded often.i had 3.5 acres that was flat the water would run off the desert and would not soak in. so i got a post hole drill for my tractor and drilled 125 holes 8 inch diamiter and 4 ft. deep all over the property. then filled them with pea gravel,sand mix.the next time the deasert flowed it steyed for an hour and i could see it going down the holes.
Can you believe it. Never thought I would hear this weather. Left Portland rain to come here for sun well that was 5 years ago. Now California knows weather . Yay the water is refilling and air is clean refreshing.
Yes they can. Fill up the historic Lake Tulare and it’s flood basin. Calif had the largest lake west of the Mississippi until they pumped it dry for agriculture. What’s shame. No wonder the aquifer is not filling up. At one time there was a big lake there.
Lake Tulare forms because there's a layer of nearly impenetrable clay called the Corcoran Clay layer. The water stands and doesn't percolate into the aquifers very quickly.
Just thank God he brought us back and some …. Going to have a great summer !!! With beautiful Green flourishing scenic views . ! Can’t wait to cycle this summer !!
Voters in California have okayed 2.7 BILLION Dollars for water Infrastructure. That was 2017 And here we are. Nothing has been done. Temperance Flat should have been built 40 years ago. The State water Project began in what 1959? STILL incomplete. Much like the %^&$ing Train.
thank you for the presentation. Can you venture out of California a little to lake Mead? I just wonder how the rain this year would have any effect on lake Mead? Thank you.
It's double edged. Great rain, unfortunately with rain comes plant growth which means more to catch fire when it gets hot. Blessing and curse at the same time.
The truth is when your use to this type of snow its no big deal. Utah's Cottonwood Canyons are one of the snowiest places in the world, with Alta averaging 551 inches of snow annually. Alta/Snowbird are 2 of the greatest skiing areas on earth and they get this much snow every year. I lived in Park City for a decade and had a winter like this, maybe not quite as much but a never ending snow storm and it never even shut down business. Utah removes snow like no other place on earth. I went to College in Ogden and never had a day school cancelled do to snow, and there were days people had to shovel their roofs, but the highways were clean.
Sadly many of our central valley farmers have overstressed the aquifer causing ground sinkage that permanently reduces the capacity of the aquafer. It will take tens of thousands of years (maybe more) to reform.
Part of me wants to say, "pay the farmers to flood their fields and keep them flooded to recharge the Aquifers" but then the entire World's Reliance on California's Agriculture would be in jeopardy as other nations look to fill the void of necessity as well as it means more Aquifer pollutants such as Nitrates getting into the drinking water wells of residents and the Farmer's fueling the need for filtration systems as soon as 3 years down the road. We really shot ourselves in the 'foot' as a Species with this one. Build more Dams? Ugh...yeah increase the number of water projects for Water Sustainability, I guess. It's probably our only way to ensure that Farmers and Residents both keep the Tap running while sacrificing some Biomes.
More dams? We’ve already killed the salmon, a multi billion dollar industry that could have sustained itself for millions more years if we didn’t build the dams.
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The calculations seem to be very exact....hmmmm, perhaps a little too exact for comfort and they almost seem to be getting a laugh while reporting on it😱😱😱😱
What do you mean, can they handle more water? They keep saying California cannot recover from the drought in one wet season, it will take many wet seasons of above average rain to recover.
California does not have a "normal" rainfall. We have an average rainfall. Historically, our rainfall amount have varied wildly. Anything from 35% to 200% of average is normal. If you look at the chart at 4:44 you can see going back almost 80 years. Climatologists looking at older data from tree rings, sediment cores, etc. say that weather-wise the 20th century was probably the most stable century going back 2000 years. In the first millennium there were 2 separate 200 year dry spells that averaged about as dry as the driest year in the last 20. We don't need different storage; we need more storage of any sort and we need better water allocation. What good is saving the salmon if we have no food to eat? A better way to save the salmon would be to eradicate two invasive species that eat something like 75% of the baby salmon and smelt before they ever reach the ocean. Striped bass and large mouth bass.
"Atmospheric River" SERIOUSLY. I'm no meteorologist but I've been around for a few decades and this weather as simply called "HEAVY RAIN". Seems a new way for the climate fearmongers to put a new scarey name on the weather we get every year (just a little more of it this year).
Closer to the turn of the century it was called the Pineapple Express because the trains of systems came from the direction of Hawaii. Before then, in the 1970's and before it was called the Japanese current, that current still exists as the garbage from the Fukashima melt down made it to our shores. I don't know why the names have changed over time.
Atmospheric river is a term probably MUCH older than you are lol you can take media recently running w it I suppose and using it for greater traction in recent times for its rise in popularity
Its really a shame that California hasnt built more reservoirs to store all of this water. AAAALLLL of that water we're just letting run off back out to sea and come next summer, maybe not THIS summer coming up, but the summer after that, we're going to be crying DROUGHT again, smh.
California needs more water! and make more reservoirs to retain all these fresh rain water. It needs to replenish it's aquifers! what we are seeing is the Top layer of water. These water needs to go underground..
No to little those effected badly I Cali, but so many yelling about no rain. Now more than you can handle, but people complain? Be careful what you ask for....
Wikipedia says the central valley had dropped 28' below it's natural level. Will this water help fill the aquafirs? The underground caverns that are created to make your lawn green causes those sink holes that swallow everything and everyone nearby. We just go on la dee da. Storing water is not the problem.
But I thought due to climate change California was suffering the worst drought in history. A path that would continue to worsen the next 12 years until we were all dead from climate change. What … I gave up my car, my generator, my lights and even my stove to save the World.
Does California need to rethink how it stores water? Is there a better way?
I don't know so much about storing water, but I personally think lawns have to go. I realize residential use is a small part of the pie, but it just doesn't make sense to have lawns in some areas. I think easing the way for drought-tolerant landscaping would be a good mentality shift.
That didn't answer your question, but it was gnawing at me.
Ease environmental regulations and build more storage. We can gradually reincorporate those regulations if we need, but it should be system reset to a degree so people can build.
Using berms and swales in the mountains will slow the water movement down and hopefully get some to soak in. How many hundreds of abandoned mines are in the Mother Lode that could be used for water storage? And perhaps most important, stop allowing residential construction and trailer parks to be with the initial flood plains of every river. The flood plains serve a purpose and look at all of the wasted money spent in protecting or rebuilding in those areas that are always going to flood.
im also wondering if all the excess water is filling up all the aquifers
stop bullet train and built more man made reservoir. BUT built more reservoir they might ask for more property tax. BUT too much politics in the way
What you mean by "rethink," ABC10? And then with such nebulousness ask "Is there a better way?"
Are you guys out of of your gourd? We were in a 17 (SEVENTEEN} year drought!
We get 1 (ONE) year of wet weather....and you suddenly feel propelled to ASK such lunacy.
Get a grip ABC10!
I would rather have too much rain and snow then to ever have a wildfire again.
Stop being hypocrites.
@@alexleer8688 Stopped being a POS.
Prayers to all those victims of floods.
The problem is that rivers, streams, and lakes are not given any space to flood.
Outstandingly informative breakdown! Great job!
Praise Father God for all of the much needed rain. Thank you 🙏
Humans know how to make it rain too. Just saying
Those being flooded out aren’t praising god 🤦♂️
@@HeyUncleA not really. They can influence it. But by no means can they just create rain. Conditions have to be right
God is fictional.
Monica definitely the most comprehensive weather reports. Wish we had one of her here in SoCal! @ABC7
Correction. Can California handle more water , TORNADOES, plus the earthquakes?
It can.
excellent job explaining current conditions
when i lived in the desert in az. i would get flooded often.i had 3.5 acres that was flat the water would run off the desert and would not soak in. so i got a post hole drill for my tractor and drilled 125 holes 8 inch diamiter and 4 ft. deep all over the property. then filled them with pea gravel,sand mix.the next time the deasert flowed it steyed for an hour and i could see it going down the holes.
Very comprehensive; great job! Wondering how the snow melt will impact Trinity Reservoir. What's the snowpack position of peaks that feed into Trinity
Monica Woods back at it again with clear, concise, & informative data analysis. Phenomenal reporting Thank you so much for all your work!
Can you believe it. Never thought I would hear this weather. Left Portland rain to come here for sun well that was 5 years ago. Now California knows weather . Yay the water is refilling and air is clean refreshing.
Can California handle more rain? You have no choice, cause it’s coming
Someone with common sense.
Yes they can. Fill up the historic Lake Tulare and it’s flood basin. Calif had the largest lake west of the Mississippi until they pumped it dry for agriculture. What’s shame. No wonder the aquifer is not filling up. At one time there was a big lake there.
its flood
That's a shame but I like having local produce though...
@@lionessprowess3581 it’s not like the produce are any cheaper if it’s produced locally. It’s still expensive.
Lake Tulare forms because there's a layer of nearly impenetrable clay called the Corcoran Clay layer. The water stands and doesn't percolate into the aquifers very quickly.
@@phlodel thanks
Great breakdown. Love the content, keep it coming for us weather nerds please 😁
Just thank God he brought us back and some …. Going to have a great summer !!! With beautiful
Green flourishing scenic views . ! Can’t wait to cycle this summer !!
Why would god bring rain to CA when he kills thousands of children every day?
Your weather forecast/summary is second to none! Bravo!
Water storage in the Central Valley really needs to focus on aquifers and restoring floodplains and historic lakes in the Central Valley.
I wonder if the Salton Sea has been getting any new water helping it?
Hopefully the rain is flushing away all of the meth smoking Turds in that area!
no
I wondered that too 🤔
Tell me when lake mead is full
Solid base in the Seirras ....hope you valleys got some waiters for the melt off ..still building...June gonna be wild!
Media in January:
😂 “ can California handle more drought ? “ 😂
Media in March :
😂 “ can California handle more water? “ 😂
Excellent report. Good news.
Excellent presentation
Yes
Heres a question do all of the drilled wells that have had to drill deeper & deeper to reach the water table benefit from this yrs rainfall?
If we stop building, and insuring, homes in literal lake beds and watersheds. Farms are all that belong in watersheds. No one belongs in a lake bed.
Happy dayz".. best comment!
Fantastic presentation! Thank you💜
We need it to last through the summer.
Voters in California have okayed 2.7 BILLION Dollars for water Infrastructure. That was 2017 And here we are. Nothing has been done. Temperance Flat should have been built 40 years ago. The State water Project began in what 1959? STILL incomplete. Much like the %^&$ing Train.
Well…. You gotta spend years in court with the EPA and waste a lot of that money to get anything of worth DONE in this state.
Well the Oroville spilway cost $1B to replace when it failed 5 years ago.
@@Sir.VicsMasher It was repaired three years ago.
Great report
California Strong 💪 we are all lieutenant Dan out here !!
Nicely done; this presentation not only serves to inform but also builds science literacy.
That was a Great summary !👍👍
I live in Palm Springs and we got 1” from the last storm so we should be at normal.
I heard that additional construction of reservoirs was not considered.
Bad news given by my favorite weather lady. Thanks Monica, real class and professionalism.
Great coverage!!!
Brilliant presentation. Well done
thank you for the presentation. Can you venture out of California a little to lake Mead? I just wonder how the rain this year would have any effect on lake Mead? Thank you.
We need MORE water. We are still in severe drought
Source?
@@aaizner847 our bi-monthly water bill is still over 800$ !!!!!!!!!
@@yoiashi That's not proof of California being in a severe drought.
They already announced that California was no longer in a drought
@@beths999 but her bill... :P
An earthquake after the rain stops you watch
Since 1500 earthquakes at 5+ magnitude occur worldwide each day, you may be right. Thanks for thoughtfully educating Californians on earthquakes.
Welcome back, Tulare Lake.
Better question, will this fix the rent to pay ratios?
Trinity and Shasta Lakes are right next to each other. Why is there such a drastic difference between their water levels?
Sunshine❤❤❤
Major flooding in the Kern river watershed
It's double edged. Great rain, unfortunately with rain comes plant growth which means more to catch fire when it gets hot. Blessing and curse at the same time.
The truth is when your use to this type of snow its no big deal. Utah's Cottonwood Canyons are one of the snowiest places in the world, with Alta averaging 551 inches of snow annually. Alta/Snowbird are 2 of the greatest skiing areas on earth and they get this much snow every year. I lived in Park City for a decade and had a winter like this, maybe not quite as much but a never ending snow storm and it never even shut down business. Utah removes snow like no other place on earth. I went to College in Ogden and never had a day school cancelled do to snow, and there were days people had to shovel their roofs, but the highways were clean.
I’m pretty sure Central Valley can handle 50 feet of water just like it did 200 years ago. Fill ‘er up.
It's san Luis not Louis 😅
13th atmospheric river next week probably.
Lucky number 13
How is the Calif. drought now? Is it almost 😅 over?
I don't know if the land can take any more water but I don't think the people can handle anymore. It's driving us crazy.
We should be drilling holes into the acquirers to recharge them….just a thought .
Sadly many of our central valley farmers have overstressed the aquifer causing ground sinkage that permanently reduces the capacity of the aquafer. It will take tens of thousands of years (maybe more) to reform.
Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow.
I love Climate Change. Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall. Proven in History.
Part of me wants to say, "pay the farmers to flood their fields and keep them flooded to recharge the Aquifers" but then the entire World's Reliance on California's Agriculture would be in jeopardy as other nations look to fill the void of necessity as well as it means more Aquifer pollutants such as Nitrates getting into the drinking water wells of residents and the Farmer's fueling the need for filtration systems as soon as 3 years down the road. We really shot ourselves in the 'foot' as a Species with this one. Build more Dams? Ugh...yeah increase the number of water projects for Water Sustainability, I guess. It's probably our only way to ensure that Farmers and Residents both keep the Tap running while sacrificing some Biomes.
More dams? We’ve already killed the salmon, a multi billion dollar industry that could have sustained itself for millions more years if we didn’t build the dams.
Great report! but for such a long segment (loved it, btw).. it's lacking one very critical piece... needed to discuss the GROUNDWATER status.
The biggest QUESTION is can ANY OF US AFFORD TO HANDLE any more Destruction, loss, pain, natural disasters, unsafe public offices, schools, work, ...unalivings. THOS WORLD 🌎 is in dire need of an 🆘 so much 😢 and overwhelming too much always, all at the same time - non-stop. Help Us
Sure can. Bring it on. 😂
CA legislature is going to raise water rates and blame it on the abundance lol.
😂😂 so true
Don’t give them ideas🤨
I'm pretty sure the water rate hike is still coming.
Thank a Democrat.
The Real Question is this being done by Weather Manipulation from China Russia or even The USA ?
The calculations seem to be very exact....hmmmm, perhaps a little too exact for comfort and they almost seem to be getting a laugh while reporting on it😱😱😱😱
Lake Oroville is not federally run, it's ran by the State of CA. Shasta however is federally rran by the Army Corp of Engineers.
What do you mean, can they handle more water? They keep saying California cannot recover from the drought in one wet season, it will take many wet seasons of above average rain to recover.
You asking to change water with 🌪️ or ....?
12 wow
😅😅😅 drought! Heat waves! At least you got some water
California does not have a "normal" rainfall. We have an average rainfall. Historically, our rainfall amount have varied wildly. Anything from 35% to 200% of average is normal. If you look at the chart at 4:44 you can see going back almost 80 years. Climatologists looking at older data from tree rings, sediment cores, etc. say that weather-wise the 20th century was probably the most stable century going back 2000 years. In the first millennium there were 2 separate 200 year dry spells that averaged about as dry as the driest year in the last 20. We don't need different storage; we need more storage of any sort and we need better water allocation. What good is saving the salmon if we have no food to eat? A better way to save the salmon would be to eradicate two invasive species that eat something like 75% of the baby salmon and smelt before they ever reach the ocean. Striped bass and large mouth bass.
A few years ago California was complaining no water.
"Atmospheric River" SERIOUSLY. I'm no meteorologist but I've been around for a few decades and this weather as simply called "HEAVY RAIN". Seems a new way for the climate fearmongers to put a new scarey name on the weather we get every year (just a little more of it this year).
Closer to the turn of the century it was called the Pineapple Express because the trains of systems came from the direction of Hawaii.
Before then, in the 1970's and before it was called the Japanese current, that current still exists as the garbage from the Fukashima melt down made it to our shores.
I don't know why the names have changed over time.
HAARP?
Atmospheric river is a term probably MUCH older than you are lol you can take media recently running w it I suppose and using it for greater traction in recent times for its rise in popularity
Its really a shame that California hasnt built more reservoirs to store all of this water. AAAALLLL of that water we're just letting run off back out to sea and come next summer, maybe not THIS summer coming up, but the summer after that, we're going to be crying DROUGHT again, smh.
There is not water in Tulare lake, buna vista lake or lake Kern
Yes we need more more more
The central San Joaquin Valley wants to be a lake again...😳
Hard to believe that just a year ago climate experts were saying that it would be years before California reservoirs would be near normal.
Because that’s what climate change means. Extreme events that are not consistent with usual patterns.
Everyone was afraid of rising sea levels.
Only Democrats were afraid.
That’s why Cali needs to do its job of trapping more water for interior use.
California needs more water! and make more reservoirs to retain all these fresh rain water. It needs to replenish it's aquifers! what we are seeing is the Top layer of water. These water needs to go underground..
It needs watersheds to replenish the ground water. Not more PEOPLE. Not more farms.
Snowiest?
well done
Now they have to think of how to save all that water.
IF California can't handle more water what exactly could they do about getting more water?
Yeah I'm not buying 20" of rain, it's at least 5'. Every week I'm collecting a foot of rain
Years of drought and super wildfires and now mudslides and floods .... Hmmm?
tornadoes don't forget
No to little those effected badly I Cali, but so many yelling about no rain. Now more than you can handle, but people complain? Be careful what you ask for....
The question we should be asking can we take a earth quake just happened today after IV sent the message no joke near lake Henshaw resort
Nice 😊
Wikipedia says the central valley had dropped 28' below it's natural level. Will this water help fill the aquafirs? The underground caverns that are created to make your lawn green causes those sink holes that swallow everything and everyone nearby. We just go on la dee da. Storing water is not the problem.
You people are such hypocrites first complain about the drought and now to much rain, grow up.
We really do need the rain...
Why are they releasing water that's causing flooding
even Nature is being ironic with us
Traditionally called cloud😂
Let Tulare Lake Grow
Stop fighting nature for only a few to profit
Work with nature for everyone to benefit
the answer is "YES!" sure why not. we live in the ocean but on land.
There saying this will last the rest of the year
But I thought due to climate change California was suffering the worst drought in history. A path that would continue to worsen the next 12 years until we were all dead from climate change. What … I gave up my car, my generator, my lights and even my stove to save the World.
The real question, can California handle Newsom any more?
They still say drought.. it’s drought rain and drought rain is dry rain.. keep water rates high and tax tax tax
Maybe you shouldn't have destroyed so many dams... You know, the things built 100+ years ago to prevent flooding?
I’m convinced Californians just catastrophies everything😂