[TonyLima]

Jeez - I hope these two are OK....

Palo Alto's newest residents

Otherwise, on a more serious note, a couple of friends got flooded out in 1998 - one house in east Menlo and another in midtown PA. A bunch of us split resources to help them evacuate and clean up afterward - what a mess.  Really hoping for the best here.

What better place to organize help than right here?  I leave it to the admins to decide whether this is a good idea.

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Just in time. My look at the Bay Area rainfall situation . Here's a preview.
 

Interesting info, thanks for sharing. Curious at how it is collected for each location. Some incongruities seem to pop up, like Martinez is way above normal, while Benicia is at normal. Similarly Danville is slightly up, yet Walnut Creek and Dublin are both way up. . . .I'd imagine taken as a whole, the data averages out and shows that overall, we've had a ton of rain.

Beats me. The original data is from the weather page of the Merc. Captured as jpg, converted to pdf, then exported to Excel. Like you, I am skeptical about individual city reports. But the overall picture looks good.

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Here are the major reservoirs in California.  Shasta and Oroville and Trinity are an enormous part of our state's water storage--located in the far north-- and they have a ways to go.  While the little local reservoirs filled first--they are too small to show on this chart.  The far north, strangely, has gotten less precip than the rest of the state.

https://cdec.water.ca.gov/resapp/RescondMain

And here is an overview of the state snowpack, which has pretty much reached normal for April 1, meaning if the faucet shuts off we will have a normal year.  Pay attention to the first number--not the second so much.

But more snow is coming, so it is almost certain that we will be above normal now, but how far above?  It is possible that the drought could end in one year, but also possible that even this wet winter won't quite do it.  What we need is a lot of snow in the far north of the state, and we need it to stay cold until April 1 and not melt before then.  That would break the drought.

https://cdec.water.ca.gov/snowapp/sweq.action

Re the highlighted statement above, don’t bet on that. If the rest of the season is dry and sunny, sublimation will occur. That means no runoff.

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This is currently my favorite thread here. Thanks for the info on rainfall around the state.  In Ventura county there were some measuring stations that recorded over 18 inches the past five days. 

I follow the water level of Lake Mead in Nevada/Arizona.  It has risen only about one foot since the rainy season started.

Lake Sonoma was the lowest I have seen it since I moved up here in 2005.
It recently went from 39% to 72.6%...amazing

Somebof us remember Feb. 1992 aka the month it rained. Nonstop.

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2017 was our last really wet winter.  I'm interested to see what it looks like today, and whether it fills up this winter.  Anyone with eyes on the lake?

I think this is going to be a really wet winter. Next two weeks promise lots of statewide precipitation. The larger (500k AF+) California lakes and reservoirs have plenty of capacity. Shasta, Oroville, San Luis and Folsom are about 1/3rd full; Pine Flat, McClure, New Melones and Trinity are 1/4th full; Don Pedro, Berryessa and Almanor are about half full. Some of the others have lesser capacity; Diamond Valley, New Bullards and Friant are around 2/3rds full. Isabella's only 9% full.

RESSW.pdf (ca.gov)

Oroville is at 47%, Folsom and Shasta's increased to 42%, San Luis is up to 39%.

Pine Flat is at 36%, McClure is at 42%, New Melones is at 33%. Trinity still at 26%.

Don Pedro (67%), Berryessa (57%) and Almanor (60%) are filling up.

Diamond Valley (61%), New Bullards (72%) and Friant (78%) are filling up fast.

Isabella is at 12%

Locally; Lexington, in Los Gatos, is at 76%; Stevens Creek is at 69%, Lower Crystal Springs (San Mateo) is at 90%, San Andreas is at 92%, Uvas is at 104%Q, Clifton Court Forebay is at 58%.

Lots of SF Bay reservoirs at 100%+ capacity, including Lake Hennessey, San Antonio, U San Leandro, Chabot, Coyote Reservoir. Calaveras at 96%.

How full is Sites? Temperance Flats?

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I'm up in Napa right now. The city and county have poured tons of money into improving flood control both in the city of Napa and upriver. It looks like its working. No flooding last week and predictions are the Napa River will get close to flooding tonight and again on Sunday but will fall a couple feet short.

My heavens. Local government fixes local problems. Outstanding.

[TonyLima]

Jeez - I hope these two are OK....

Palo Alto's newest residents

Otherwise, on a more serious note, a couple of friends got flooded out in 1998 - one house in east Menlo and another in midtown PA. A bunch of us split resources to help them evacuate and clean up afterward - what a mess.  Really hoping for the best here.

What better place to organize help than right here?  I leave it to the admins to decide whether this is a good idea.

---

Just in time. My look at the Bay Area rainfall situation . Here's a preview.
 

Interesting info, thanks for sharing. Curious at how it is collected for each location. Some incongruities seem to pop up, like Martinez is way above normal, while Benicia is at normal. Similarly Danville is slightly up, yet Walnut Creek and Dublin are both way up. . . .I'd imagine taken as a whole, the data averages out and shows that overall, we've had a ton of rain.

Beats me. The original data is from the weather page of the Merc. Captured as jpg, converted to pdf, then exported to Excel. Like you, I am skeptical about individual city reports. But the overall picture looks good.

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Here are the major reservoirs in California.  Shasta and Oroville and Trinity are an enormous part of our state's water storage--located in the far north-- and they have a ways to go.  While the little local reservoirs filled first--they are too small to show on this chart.  The far north, strangely, has gotten less precip than the rest of the state.

https://cdec.water.ca.gov/resapp/RescondMain

And here is an overview of the state snowpack, which has pretty much reached normal for April 1, meaning if the faucet shuts off we will have a normal year.  Pay attention to the first number--not the second so much.

But more snow is coming, so it is almost certain that we will be above normal now, but how far above?  It is possible that the drought could end in one year, but also possible that even this wet winter won't quite do it.  What we need is a lot of snow in the far north of the state, and we need it to stay cold until April 1 and not melt before then.  That would break the drought.

https://cdec.water.ca.gov/snowapp/sweq.action

Re the highlighted statement above, don’t bet on that. If the rest of the season is dry and sunny, sublimation will occur. That means no runoff.

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This is currently my favorite thread here. Thanks for the info on rainfall around the state.  In Ventura county there were some measuring stations that recorded over 18 inches the past five days. 

I follow the water level of Lake Mead in Nevada/Arizona.  It has risen only about one foot since the rainy season started.

Lake Sonoma was the lowest I have seen it since I moved up here in 2005.
It recently went from 39% to 72.6%...amazing

Somebof us remember Feb. 1992 aka the month it rained. Nonstop.

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2017 was our last really wet winter.  I'm interested to see what it looks like today, and whether it fills up this winter.  Anyone with eyes on the lake?

I think this is going to be a really wet winter. Next two weeks promise lots of statewide precipitation. The larger (500k AF+) California lakes and reservoirs have plenty of capacity. Shasta, Oroville, San Luis and Folsom are about 1/3rd full; Pine Flat, McClure, New Melones and Trinity are 1/4th full; Don Pedro, Berryessa and Almanor are about half full. Some of the others have lesser capacity; Diamond Valley, New Bullards and Friant are around 2/3rds full. Isabella's only 9% full.

RESSW.pdf (ca.gov)

Oroville is at 47%, Folsom and Shasta's increased to 42%, San Luis is up to 39%.

Pine Flat is at 36%, McClure is at 42%, New Melones is at 33%. Trinity still at 26%.

Don Pedro (67%), Berryessa (57%) and Almanor (60%) are filling up.

Diamond Valley (61%), New Bullards (72%) and Friant (78%) are filling up fast.

Isabella is at 12%

Locally; Lexington, in Los Gatos, is at 76%; Stevens Creek is at 69%, Lower Crystal Springs (San Mateo) is at 90%, San Andreas is at 92%, Uvas is at 104%Q, Clifton Court Forebay is at 58%.

Lots of SF Bay reservoirs at 100%+ capacity, including Lake Hennessey, San Antonio, U San Leandro, Chabot, Coyote Reservoir. Calaveras at 96%.

How full is Sites? Temperance Flats?

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I'm up in Napa right now. The city and county have poured tons of money into improving flood control both in the city of Napa and upriver. It looks like its working. No flooding last week and predictions are the Napa River will get close to flooding tonight and again on Sunday but will fall a couple feet short.

My heavens. Local government fixes local problems. Outstanding.