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That’s great. I hope the reservoirs fill back up.
by D13Fd 4y ago
That’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.