Drought has improved since last week! (San Diego, Porterville: living, storage, store)

[Winterfall8324]

https://www.google.com/amp/www.sfgat...?client=safari
Even better

[LaylaM]

Originally Posted by saranshay

I know Northern California gets more rain, but is it still really dry around the Santa Rosa area?

We're having what is considered a 'normal' winter in the North Bay - plenty of rain. We've also had a couple of flood warnings and the reservoirs are at 75% of normal now. We had a fair amount of rain last winter and a considerable amount last spring, so we're no longer in severe drought up here. Many of us continue to conserve, of course.

[Chimérique]

The smaller footbridge at the beginning of this video(Jim's Bridge) is in the Rancho Cordova/Gold River/Fair Oaks neighborhoods of Sacramento. The camera moves upriver towards the Hazel Ave Bridge, Orangevale and the City of Folsom passing Lake Natoma and the Nimbus Fish Hatchery all in Sacramento County.

We love it when it rains!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6jQnw0CLyA



In the summer, Jim's Bridge is near 15-20 feet above the water, popular spot to jump into the river. Here's the bridge last month with the guard rail collapsed in anticipation of the bridge being inundated. The large auto bridge is Sunrise Blvd.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUq8PHqW_Uc

[citizensadvocate]

Nice improvements, though I will like to ask when would the drought be considered over?
It appears state parks still uses drought as an excuse to not provide hand washing water.
24 hour fitness still shuts down their steam room from 11pm to 4am. Which I find absord as some locations originally shuts them down 1am-5am which makes better sense as many people visit the gym before midnight but very few would visit before 5am.

[DriveNotCommute]

The drought isn't truly over until the snowpack and glaciers are back to where they were and the underground aquifers are recharged, at least to the best possible extent that the drained and therefore permanently damaged aquifers can be recharged.

I consider the aquifers a key benchmark because of how heavily various industries and some smaller towns seem to depend from them, especially during dry cycles.

[sourdough]

Climate Prediction Center: Seasonal Drought Outlook
"Areas from the southern tier of the West into central California outside the Sierra Nevada can expect persisting or worsening drought conditions, but improvement is anticipated farther north."

[saibot]

I think that Seasonal Drought Outlook is out of date.

[expatCA]

Originally Posted by saibot

I think that Seasonal Drought Outlook is out of date.

It says valid from Dec 15 through March 2017 and released Dec 2016, so current

[saibot]

Originally Posted by expatCA

It says valid from Dec 15 through March 2017 and released Dec 2016, so current

I meant that when it was published (12/15/16), the storms that would hit California from the second half of December through the beginning of January were not expected. It's hard to believe that most of Central and Southern California are not at least in the "Drought remains but improves" category at this point.

[expatCA]

Originally Posted by saibot

I meant that when it was published (12/15/16), the storms that would hit California from the second half of December through the beginning of January were not expected. It's hard to believe that most of Central and Southern California are not at least in the "Drought remains but improves" category at this point.

It has improved it, but even then the snow pack must keep growing as it is still well below normal. Plus the aquifer is way down and can take many years. Water flows very slowly into the aquifer. It is not like filling a lake.