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I live in Utah County in Utah, also part of the American West. We have been getting so much moisture this season. Everyone's been talking about a decades-long d
by djha-skin 4y ago
I live in Utah County in Utah, also part of the American West. We have been getting so much moisture this season. Everyone's been talking about a decades-long drought and how it could kill off our farming but I'm starting to hope that we're coming out of it or at least that we'll have a nice respite. A few seasons back my trees died because there wasn't enough snow. This season nobody's trees are dying let me tell you that. So much snow and rain.
- D13Fd 4y agoThat’s great. I hope the reservoirs fill back up.
- dredmorbius 4y agoA real challenge for California is that the reservoirs are tuned for snowmelt rather than rainfall. That is, snow hitting the Sierra and Cascade mountains (Shasta, Lassen) over the winter, then melting over the spring. I don't know what temps are associated with this storm, or how the snowmelt will develop over the springtime, but a large deluge as rain hitting the reservoirs would 1) rapidly fill them and 2) require lowering the lake levels to manage further floodwaters. This is one reason why climate change and warming is such a challenge for the Western US: its water management systems are tuned for colder weather patterns and not year-round warm rains.