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mechrist

Gym climber
South of Heaven
Apr 3, 2014 - 01:33am PT
The snow was already melting in April 07 huh HATECHRIST???


Odd, what then was it doing in April of 83... cloning itself as it melted? It did not peak till the end of April that Max season.

hahahhaaaaaaaaa... too much.... ahhahhahahhahaaaaaa.... make it stop....
mechrist

Gym climber
South of Heaven
Apr 3, 2014 - 01:39am PT
hey chuff, when the water content of the snow pack is going down, the snow is melting (or sublimating). It had already started going down by April 2007 (you see that right?)... which has exactly nothing to do with April 1983.

There is no fear in that, unless you are afraid of facing reality outside that impenetrable skull of yours.
mechrist

Gym climber
South of Heaven
Apr 3, 2014 - 01:43am PT
Ah, not according to your graphs HATECHRIST. They started their descent the beginning of March of 2007.

Why?

There was NO SNOWFALL to record.

Wow, you really are THAT stupid! Thanks for the reminder.
mechrist

Gym climber
South of Heaven
Apr 3, 2014 - 01:47am PT
yep... I said the 2006-07 snowpack had already started melting by April. When the water content of the snow pack is declining (when the line on the graph goes down) it means the snow was melting (or sublimating).

It must hurt being that stupid. I'm sorry for your suffering.
mechrist

Gym climber
South of Heaven
Apr 3, 2014 - 01:55am PT
About as stupid as they come apparently.
ß Î Ø T Ç H

Boulder climber
extraordinaire
Apr 3, 2014 - 02:03am PT
The ski industry needs to to get up off it's ass and price/ advertise aggresively according to when the customers could possibly travel, and target families more, not the elderly rich minority.
The old days of everybody just going for it en masse are over.
labrat

Trad climber
Auburn, CA
Apr 3, 2014 - 02:10am PT
This topic sure took a turn for the worse with all the name calling ;-(

Goodnight.
Erik
Dr.Sprock

Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
Apr 3, 2014 - 03:27am PT
i wanna do 30 days straight time in Quentin,
monolith

climber
SF bay area
Apr 3, 2014 - 09:57am PT
We are currently at or above the MIN year of 76-77'

Very weak logic Chief, as we are in the 3rd year of consecutive low snow winters.

What were the two previous winters before the winter of 76-77?
mechrist

Gym climber
South of Heaven
Apr 3, 2014 - 10:11am PT
Come on Chuff, if you don't know that a negative slope on a SWE graph means the snow is melting, yet continue to insist you know what the graphs mean, you are stupid. That's a fact.

If I insisted you control a helichopter with a joystick and two pedals, one for gas and one for breaks, you'd set me straight. If I kept insisting you were wrong and I was right, you'd call me an idiot... and I'd deserve it.

You deserved it... and blurring always deserves it. Stop playing the whiny victim and admit you were being stupid.
Patrick Sawyer

climber
Originally California now Ireland
Topic Author's Reply - Apr 3, 2014 - 10:29am PT
This topic sure took a turn for the worse with all the name calling ;-(

Erik, agreed to some extent. But I started it because I read can reports, weather bulletins, etc etc, but looking at photos people have posted on this thread also tells a lot, perhaps not the whole story but…

So, how serious is the drought? I have read through the entire thread and I see some conflicting reports, studies, forecasts.

But what is like on the ground? And the reservoirs, lakes, and… Tahoe, Walnut Creek/Lafayette, Salton Sea, Mammoth Lakes, Shasta, the rivers flowing from the Sierra/Cascades, or from the Coast range, etc.

Again to iterate, I can read all I want, some conflicting stuff, but you people are there on the ground.

As where I am, pissing down the past few days but today is 'sunny', looking like Spring.
mechrist

Gym climber
South of Heaven
Apr 3, 2014 - 10:36am PT
Ah, I see what the chuff is saying. It isn't a drought because there have been worse dry periods in the past. And depletion of the ozone isn't a problem because ozone wasn't around for the vast majority of the Earth's history.

On the same note, chuff isn't a idiot because blurring is an even bigger idiot.
monolith

climber
SF bay area
Apr 3, 2014 - 10:37am PT
So, how serious is the drought? I have read through the entire thread and I see some conflicting reports, studies, forecasts.

http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?id=9440612

Farmers on the West Side of the Valley -- in areas like Huron and Firebaugh  are expected to get nothing. But for the first time, East Side farmers -- who rely on water out of Friant Dam -- also face zero allocation.

Farmers who have wells will pump groundwater to sustain their crops, but that will put heavy pressure on the Valley's underground aquifer.
Patrick Sawyer

climber
Originally California now Ireland
Topic Author's Reply - Apr 3, 2014 - 10:42am PT
Khanom, is that yip cia?
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
Apr 3, 2014 - 10:55am PT
I took some of my own advice and will offer these additions.

San Diego County imports roughly 80% of it's water

Average for the five year period ending 2013:
20% from Bay-Delta**
63% from Colorado River
17% came from local supplies

**The Bay-Delta is a vast network of channels and islands at the convergence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, which collect runoff from the Sierra Nevada.

Rainfall, by decade has been fairly consistent (note: last 'decade' is less than ten):




San Diego Rainfall by Season (July 1 through June 30)
1850-1851 through 2012-2013
2012-2013 season shown in red


OT:

Nobody needs a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, right? I was inclined to skip through the darkness (but check out the moon @2:50) to the clouds blowing in the wind.

[Click to View YouTube Video]
mechrist

Gym climber
South of Heaven
Apr 3, 2014 - 12:06pm PT
Patrick, you mentioned stream flows. Check out this site: http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ca/nwis/rt

Note the stream flow graphs are logarithmic.
Ken M

Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
Apr 3, 2014 - 12:55pm PT
[quote]California Drought: San Joaquin Valley sinking as farmers race to tap aquifer
By Lisa M. Krieger
lkrieger@mercurynews.com
Posted: 03/29/2014 01:28:19 PM PDT

... "Everybody is starting to panic," said Arthur, whose Fresno-based well-drilling company just bought its ninth rig, off the Wyoming oil fields. "Without water, this valley can't survive."

When water doesn't fall from the sky or flow from reservoirs, there's only one place to find it: underground. So, three years into a devastating drought, thirsty Californians are draining the precious aquifer beneath the nation's most productive farmland like never before, pitting neighbor against neighbor in a perverse race to the bottom.

The rush to drill is driven not just by historically dry conditions, but by a host of other factors that promote short-term consumption over long-term survival -- new, more moisture-demanding crops; improved drilling technologies; and a surge of corporate investors seeking profits for agricultural ventures.

Now those forces are renewing an age-old problem of environmental degradation: Decades ago, overpumping sunk half of the entire San Joaquin Valley, in one area as much as 28 feet. Today new areas are subsiding, some almost a foot each year, damaging bridges and vital canals.

http://www.insidebayarea.com/drought/ci_25447586/california-drought-san-joaquin-valley-sinking-farmers-race[/quote]
mechrist

Gym climber
South of Heaven
Apr 3, 2014 - 01:13pm PT
What Lisa M. Krieger fails to point out in her fear mongering rant is...

1982-83 was a wet year and it has been drier in the geologic past.

Therefore, nothing to worry about and all your concerns are invalid.
mechrist

Gym climber
South of Heaven
Apr 3, 2014 - 02:08pm PT
hahahaaa... the man who doesn't know what a negative slope on a graph means seems to think everyone who mentions the FACT that we are currently experiencing a drought automatically attributes it to anthropogenic climate change and thinks it is unprecedented in all of Earth's history. It must be nice living in your own little world of self-delusion.

But then again, the world all began 50 years ago.

Nope, but Folsom Lake did (+/- 10 yrs).
couchmaster

climber
pdx
Apr 3, 2014 - 03:51pm PT
I don't know why you keep responding to the Anti-Wes-Me-Christ there Chief. Good luck with it.

Shirt for the antichrist there:


Save him a lot of time blowing hot air calling everyone idiots. LOL

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