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Old 03-21-2011, 07:30 PM
 
Location: San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties
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Santa Maria got more rain yesterday than on any other day in the past 60 years.

Santa Barbara got more rain yesterday than on any other day, ever.
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Old 03-21-2011, 07:38 PM
 
Location: The High Seas
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How much?
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Old 03-21-2011, 08:56 PM
 
Location: San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties
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It was on the TeeVee, as I recollect about 4 inches in Santa Maria
about 5 inches in Santa Barbara

Cachuma lake got over 10 inches.

Here in Arroyo Grande at our ranch, we got 6 inches..

Big rain, more coming.
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Old 03-21-2011, 09:00 PM
 
Location: The High Seas
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Cachuma lake got over 10 inches.


Yearly rainfall averages about 15 inches per year in Santa Barbara. It will stay green fairly late into the season again, hopefully. Reservoirs should be pretty full.
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Old 03-21-2011, 09:29 PM
 
Location: San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties
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Cachuma is over flowing now, which is a problem for down stream. The entire watershed is draining out, 400 acres of farmland near Lompoc is underwater.

Rains like this that result in heavy grass and shrubbery growth, pretty well predict a dangerous fire season once they cure.
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Old 03-21-2011, 09:46 PM
 
Location: San Francisco
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Cachuma is over flowing now, which is a problem for down stream. The entire watershed is draining out, 400 acres of farmland near Lompoc is underwater.

Rains like this that result in heavy grass and shrubbery growth, pretty well predict a dangerous fire season once they cure.
So they worry over fire danger in drought years from dry conditions and worry about fire danger in wet years from too much water on the vegetation? Are they ever content with what nature gives us?
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Old 03-21-2011, 11:34 PM
 
Location: So California
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Amazing rainfall for the central coast.
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Old 03-23-2011, 04:53 AM
 
Location: San Diego, CA
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All that rain should help the winter salmon spawn on the Santa Ynez river.
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Old 03-23-2011, 07:42 AM
 
Location: Las Flores, Orange County, CA
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I guess it's now OK for all of us in Southern California to hose down our driveways and gutters and plant acres of thirsty green lawns and leave the hose running down the driveway while we wash our cars.
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Old 03-23-2011, 08:15 AM
 
Location: San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties
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So they worry over fire danger in drought years from dry conditions and worry about fire danger in wet years from too much water on the vegetation?
Wet years create more growth at low elevations and that increases the fire danger at low elevations.
Wet years give a deep snow pack which keeps the higher elevations green and lessens the high altitude fire dangers.

Dry years do not allow that much vegetation growth at low elevations and so the fire danger at low elevations can be less than in wet years.
Dry years result in a light snow pack and that allows high altitude vegetation to dry out and increases the high altitude fire dangers.

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Are they ever content with what nature gives us?
I don't know who "they" are, and I am not sure what "content" has to do with relative fire dangers.
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