The Official Drought Thread

[Moliere]

We aren't getting much where it counts for California.

According to my inlaws it's because you live in a liberal state. Maybe if you passed prop 8 again you would get some moisture.

[bluegoose]

We aren't getting much where it counts for California.

We're at about 120% normal snow pack in the northern Sierra and southern cascades. Up north we have been getting a decent amount of rain in the valley but the mountains are really getting dumped on.

[BigPiney]

We're at about 120% normal snow pack in the northern Sierra and southern cascades. Up north we have been getting a decent amount of rain in the valley but the mountains are really getting dumped on.

Only 89% to date down here.

[All-American]

Only 89% to date down here.

That many singles? I guess marriage really did need protection.

[wuapinmon]

JL, how much above normal would the state need to average to come out of this drought?

[Dwight Schr-ute]

Saw this great post on FB.

Winter is not even over yet and we're already at 100 to 120% of snow pack in Utah in most areas

[chrisrenrut]

Saw this great post on FB.

[Dwight Schr-ute]

El Nino part of a land grab of ocean front property along the California coast.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...b01a3ed123bd2f

[bluegoose]

So far so good, at least up north in California. Big Piney's hood is still lagging behind a little bit. Going to hit the slopes of Mt Shasta this weekend with the kids where they have about 70" at the base and 94" up top. Last year at this time they didn't have a drop of snow at the base.

[Omaha 680]

JL, how much above normal would the state need to average to come out of this drought?

Bump. I'm curious about this in light of bluegoose's post.

[Sullyute]

El Nino part of a land grab of ocean front property along the California coast.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...b01a3ed123bd2f

I have zero sympathy for home owners who build places like this and act dumb founded that their home is destroyed. Same thing with the homes built up on eroding hills in Bountiful or homes built in flood plains next to mid-west rivers. I also have no sympathy for real estate developers or the city councils that approve it either.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Bump. I'm curious about this in light of bluegoose's post.

I suppose it depend on how you define "out of the drought". One good measure (in the west at least) is the status of your reservoirs. Sometimes it takes several wet years to fully recover.

[byu71]

I saw two very interesting pieces on the decline of two great civiliztions. The Mayan's and early Egytians. I guess the Egytians reigned for a long, long time but there was a dark period of about 200 years.
The Mayans were basically wiped out.

The conclusion in both cases was weather change that wiped them out. This guy had been working 20 years on his theory droubt was the terrible event that took out the Mayans. While most were skeptical at first mainly because having a droubt in a tropical forest seemed highly unlikely. However, based on scientific work the droubt theory seems very credible.

[Dwight Schr-ute]

I have zero sympathy for home owners who build places like this and act dumb founded that their home is destroyed. Same thing with the homes built up on eroding hills in Bountiful or homes built in flood plains next to mid-west rivers. I also have no sympathy for real estate developers or the city councils that approve it either.

(At least until an earthquake levels my house. Or water stops coming out of my pipes.)

[Omaha 680]

I suppose it depend on how you define "out of the drought". One good measure (in the west at least) is the status of your reservoirs. Sometimes it takes several wet years to fully recover.

I define it as guilt-free consumption of all the almonds I want.