Can it stop raining please!!!

[Wile E. Coyote]

Originally Posted by 1AngryTaxPayer

We had that the first go round but since we've had 45 days of rain.


https://fox5sandiego.com/weather/is-...ear-on-record/

I did live in N CA for 20 years so I do get it. My favorite day was sunny and 72 degrees (after much consideration).

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Originally Posted by Wile E. Coyote

I did live in N CA for 20 years so I do get it. My favorite day was sunny and 72 degrees (after much consideration).

A break in the rain for a bike ride!! We have moss in the driveway. Never seen that here before. Banner year for weeds, lucky chickens.

[Snackmaster]

It's raining so much, it may bring back Tulare Lake, which used to be the largest lake in the US west of the Mississippi.

"For those unfamiliar with Tulare Lake, until the late 1800s it was the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River. No, really. In wet years it covered 960 square miles (Lake Tahoe is 191 square miles by comparison) and sustained both a thriving indigenous population (the Yokuts people) and diverse wildlife: vast flocks of migratory birds, an abundance of fish as well as western pond turtles served as terrapin soup to diners in San Francisco.

Starting in the 1860s, irrigation districts began constructing levees, canals and dams to divert water from Tulare Lake for agriculture. By 1900, the lake essentially disappeared, but would reform on occasion. The 1954 completion of Pine Flat Dam, which subdued the mighty Kings River, proved the final nail.

Since then, Tulare Lake has periodically reappeared when the amount of water overwhelmed the ability of landowners to prevent it from flooding their fields. It happened in 1983 when a massive snow year led to a prolonged spring runoff, and again in 1997 following severe winter storms.

This year both of those scenarios are in play. California is having an epic winter, resulting in one of the largest Sierra snowpacks in recorded history. Most of that snow has yet to melt.

“There’s 3 million acre-feet in four months, and you’ve got a 1 million acre-foot reservoir (when empty),” Haugen said in reference to Pine Flat Lake, which was at 77% capacity Friday. “That water’s got to go someplace.”"

Huell Howser even did a segment on Tulare Lake - https://blogs.chapman.edu/huell-hows...ias-gold-1005/ It was probably after the 1997 flood.