Remnants of Hurricane Hilary set to bring record rain to southwest U.S.

[Fenixgoon]

Then why are they always complaining about water shortages etc...

Regardless of what I have a clue about, it is obvious they need to change something as what they are doing and have done is not working.

Because almonds are fucking awful.

https://cwc.ca.gov/-/media/CWC-Website/Files/Documents/2019/06_June/June2019_Item_12_Attach_2_PPICFactSheets.pdf

It's from 2019, but I doubt the results will have changed too drastically. Total water usage is dominated by agriculture.

Even if all the cities in California magically stopped using water - because everyone loves to pick on the cities - you'd still have something like 80% of water usage left over.

Hint hint, less and/or more efficient farming that doesn't drop the ground level by 1 foot per year

Subsiding Areas in California | USGS California Water Science Center

Explore an interactive USGS map to learn more about areas in California affected by subsidence, and if groundwater pumping, oil extraction, or peat loss is the cause.

ca.water.usgs.gov

 

[Moonbeam]

The problem may fade in 50 million years after human extinction as Kangaroo rats that can make water from food become self conscious.

 

[Stopsignhank]

#Hurriquake.

 

[woolfe9998]

The news needs to quit saying that this storm is "drenching California." It may be drenching So Cal, but here in Nor Cal it's clear, dry and hot as fuck.

 

[IronWing]

The news needs to quit saying that this storm is "drenching California." It may be drenching So Cal, but here in Nor Cal it's clear, dry and hot as fuck.

At least you have the smoke to shade you.

 

[Moonbeam]

At least you have the smoke to shade you.

I guess the meaning of clear wasn't clear. I did notice however over woolfe's house a gathering ofstratiform sheets; cirriform wisps and patches; stratocumuliform patches, rolls, and ripples; cumuliform heaps, with cumulonimbiform towers off over the mountains in the distance.

 

[Brovane]

Oh dear!!

 

[Drach]

I know that the Colorado river supplies most of California's water needs. It is however stretched to the limits most of the time.

They need to be able to capture these massive rain events for future use.

Supplies most of southern California's needs. Everything north of the grapevine relies on other water sources.
I hate that people think that socal starts at Sacramento.

 

[moonbogg]

I'm in socal right in the path of this beast in the inland empire, and to be perfectly clear, nothing happened. Muggy weather, light showers, and the storm has already passed. The news stations sold a lot of air time though by using such words as "catastrophic", "life-threatening", "once in a lifetime" etc.

 

[Saylick]

I'm in socal right in the path of this beast in the inland empire, and to be perfectly clear, nothing happened. Muggy weather, light showers, and the storm has already passed. The news stations sold a lot of air time though by using such words as "catastrophic", "life-threatening", "once in a lifetime" etc.

Yes, but was it "one of the wettest we've ever seen from the standpoint of water"?

 

[Zor Prime]

Big letdown. At least I don't have to stand out there with a hose or run the water sprinklers for my lawn.

 

[UNCjigga]

That's funny--my sister also said it was a non-event (just drizzle and little wind in between LAX and Venice Beach) but some parts of LA County recorded over 7 inches of rain. Earthquake was a bigger deal.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Oh and batting one out of three sucks.

A .333 batting average is legendary shit.

Stoked you guys dodged a bullet there. Could have been really bad. Yeah, you need the rain, but not all at once like they were worried about.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

While tropical systems can cover wide areas overall, rainfall can be very localized.

 

[feralkid]

The problem may fade in 50 million years after human extinction as Kangaroo rats that can make water from food become self conscious.

Is that before, or after shrimps learn to whistle?

 

[sactoking]

We had thunder storms and hail all weekend at Silver Lake and we've had lots of rain on the eastern side of the Sierras as well so it's not like someone had to draw in an area in sharpie marker in the hopes that it would go this far north.

 

[hal2kilo]

At least you have the smoke to shade you.

Yea, wonderful. Thankfully, it's not ridiculously hot with the smoke this time in WA state. Had my windows closed for the last 48 hours. Looks like the onshore flow is going to clear things up tonight. The new Fn normal!

 

[Zorba]

I'm in socal right in the path of this beast in the inland empire, and to be perfectly clear, nothing happened. Muggy weather, light showers, and the storm has already passed. The news stations sold a lot of air time though by using such words as "catastrophic", "life-threatening", "once in a lifetime" etc.

I saw a video of a road "being washed away," on the second watching, you could tell the road was under construction and it broke off right at a saw cut. You know, just massive devastation there, might cost the construction workers a couple hours of OT.

 

[Bacstar]

My sister living in California sent me this... LOL

 

[pcgeek11]

All the money is going instead into raking the forests under the Trump Plan (c) to prevent forest fires.

Well lack of proper forest maintenance (controled burns etc...) is also an issue in California.

 

[IronWing]

Well lack of proper forest maintenance (controled burns etc...) is also an issue in California.

Terrible zoning is the real issue. People are building tree houses right up to forest boundaries making it very difficult to conduct prescribed burns. Also, when a wildfire starts, the firefighters have to focus on protecting structures while the forest fire gets bigger. It's a big enough issue that State Farm and All State are getting out of the homeowners insurance business in California.

 

[pcgeek11]

I read that the homeowners should be clearing the areas around their houses.

"People are building tree houses right up to forest boundaries" This is a huge problem.

 

[nakedfrog]

Or you don't have a clue about how California manages its water but still spout off on the internet.

I mean, that's kind of his whole schtick.

 

[sportage]

Big letdown. At least I don't have to stand out there with a hose or run the water sprinklers for my lawn.

They were saying all along that the hurricane would lose intensity fast as it moved nearer to San Diego because hurricanes need hot humid weather and San Diego is much cooler and much dryer than your average hurricane needs. The earthquake was probably more nerve-racking than the actual hurricane. I'd like to see the news media cover a predicted earthquake. IT'S COMING. IT'S COMING ANY SECOND NOW. ANY SECOND NOW. WOLF, DID YOU FEEL SOMETHING? ANYTHING? NO ANDERSON, I ONLY FARTED.

 

[brycejones]

I guess this is the week conservatives become experts in both forest management and water management.

Next week it will be something else they have barely looked into