California is Due for Another Hurricane / Tropical Storm

I found this interesting.

How California could save up its rain to ease future droughts — instead of watching epic atmospheric river rainfall drain into the Pacific

 

Most of the rain has hit North of Mead. But next storm is likely to hit more south, and drop rain in and around Mead, and snow in the mountains.

And collecting rain water is a project the west should have been working on for years. There are some recharge projects in Arizona, but too much water after a storm is wasted in my opinion. Certain areas always flood during any rain. If we could collect this water to recharge, it would help.

 

My favorite Tahoe resort is Heavenly (in part due to its proximity to the Casino’s. They’ve had 220’ inches of snow fo far which is awesome but last year at this time they had 180” and it just shut off. Base is 90”+.

Alas no Tahoe trip this year…

 

how do you explain long lost wrecks and dead hikers on glaciers slowly being uncovered as the glacier snow recedes? They crash landed or collapsed in areas without snow and have been buried under snow for the last 40 - 60 years. It would seem that the snow depth is now returning to where it was when these people perished or am I missing something?

 

it happens, just like red tide does. the question becomes how much does man influence what is happening? it is apparent that red tide blooms are much worse when they get fed massive amounts of nutrients. It seems very likely that while weather patterns do change naturally, massive amounts of methane and CO2 released by man is helping to accelerate the process, ie feed the bloom.

 

filling but long ways to go. many still well below historical averages for this time of year. surprised at the lower levels of the ones in coastal california that one would think would be filled up due to their smaller size and proximity to these downpours.

good interactive tool here

Major Water Supply Reservoirs (ca.gov)

 

Nutrients That Feed Red Tide “Under the Microscope” in Major Study | News & Press | Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium
Read this and I would like to hear your take from this study. Maybe my reading comprehension is not that good, but appears to me that they are not blaming nutrient runoff as much of the cause? It appears to me that is more naturally occurring nutrients feeding the increased bloom size??

 

old science but even then they recognized that the closer to shore blooms that impact most of the fish and people are feeding from manmade nutrients

but once moved inshore blooms can use both human-contributed and natural nutrients for growth.

If the Tampa phosphate dump didn't do anything else, it proved how a nutrient release feeds the bloom. The red tide is naturally occuring, just like CO2 in the atmosphere. Feeding it nutrients to grow and having warmer water for it to grow in helps to magnify the growth rates. Having those nutrients closer to shore encourages the red-tide to folllow the nutrient stream just like a root follws a water source.

Fyi, here is a more recent article on where the nutrient loading into, and subsequently out of, Lake O is coming from. Big ag, and especially big cattle have fought the SFWMD on establishing real time monitoring stations but ones that have been deployed make it real clear that it isn't golf courses or residnetial developments (or at least those under the rules of the last 10 -20 years). These volunteer BMP programs with no teeth, no monitoring, no enforcement, are broken, and always have been

Florida’s Lake O BMAP water pollution reduction program isn’t working (theledger.com)

The problem is not exclusive to this Rio Rancho Corp. farm. Rainfall runoff that flows into Lake O from hundreds of surrounding properties routinely exceeds the limit — without the state imposing any consequences, a TCPalm investigation found.

All 32 drainage basins around the lake with available data exceeded the limit over a five-year average, according to TCPalm’s analysis of “water year” data from May 2016 to April 2021. Rio Rancho was just the worst in the last two years. Even lesser polluters exceeded the limit by over 100%.

The data proves — for the first time — that Florida’s flagship program to reduce water pollution isn’t working. And that pollution is contaminating waterways and sparking toxic algal blooms in the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee rivers.

“All one has to do is look at the water for the evidence,” said Indian Riverkeeper Mike Conner, who heads a Treasure Coast nonprofit that advocates for clean water. “The impairment of Florida waters is now at an all-time high.”

 

This is just California trying to be Florida.