El Nino is likely, and it could be very powerful next winter (Chino: house, move)

[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by kingdomkz

Exactly something that nobody seems to be really paying attention to in the yearly increasing temperature of the mountains that is going to eventually end hydropower and the "Garden" section at the big name stores! I guess the sudden "renewed" interest in nuclear power has absolutely nothing to do with this lately. . Saltwater is plentiful for the nuclear power plants, maybe the nuclear power plants could also be used as desalination plants, just open your pockets and prepare for the increased income tax brackets. I'm sure nothing bad will happen in the event of that due earthquake of course.

Posts warning of the end of hydropower on another thread were scoffed at, and put down as alarmist.

Good luck, people.

[Elliott_CA]

Originally Posted by LuvSouthOC

Reports indicate El Nino is strengthening. It's looking more and more like we will be drenched this winter. Massive El Niño growing, say models

Maybe, maybe not. A potential fly in the ointment is lurking which might deprive California from El Nino rains: that persistent high pressure zone off the coast that causes the drought by blocking storms from reaching the state. I have not heard of any climatologist or meteorologist make any predictions about this, probably because they don't know. Will El Nino break down the ridge and let the rains through? Or does the ridge hunker down and deflect El Nino rains away from California? No one knows...

[BeauCharles]

Shhh!!! Everyone be quiet about it or it'll jinx us!

[expatCA]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

I think the point is that it needs to be cold enough in the Sierras when the rain hits, that it will build a snowpack, AND that the snowpack won't melt early in spring season, due to more unseasonably warm weather. Water storage facilities should be built to take advantage of early spring snowmelts. Assuming we get snow on an annual basis, which it's looking like we won't in the future.

Yes, why has the State not been building more storage lakes, etc? The drought issue come and goes, so an intelligent Government would take steps to avoid the problem each time it comes up. They don't.

Then of course the population keeps increasing so a drought like the last one we had, would be worse as more water would be needed. Imagine a drought like the current one, BUT the State had 60 million not 30 million. Oops that would mean a drought that leaves just the same amount of available water we have this year, would have no water available as it were. No planning, just mandating less use and raising costs and .... no real effort by the State to fix it or plan ahead for the next one (If the State survives this one) at all. Well SD has been trying, OC has taken steps to some extent and Riverside did build Diamond reservoir. What did anyone else, let alone the State Government, do over the last decade or so?.

[LoriBee62]

Here in Sonoma County our water supply does not rely on snow pack. Our primary source of water is reservoirs and ground wells, both of which are higher this year than they were last summer.

Moral of the story: Not all of California is facing severe water shortages, as some water agencies HAVE built water storage facilities in the form of lakes and reservoirs. So not only does every rain help us, cooler weather that prevents evaporation helps even when it's not raining.

[expatCA]

Originally Posted by LoriBee62

Here in Sonoma County our water supply does not rely on snow pack. Our primary source of water is reservoirs and ground wells, both of which are higher this year than they were last summer.

Moral of the story: Not all of California is facing severe water shortages, as some water agencies HAVE built water storage facilities in the form of lakes and reservoirs. So not only does every rain help us, cooler weather that prevents evaporation helps even when it's not raining.

True, but most of central and southern CA does not seem to have done so. Again it seems to be a county issue as the State does ..........................

[znlwovuhrjw]

Originally Posted by LoriBee62

Here in Sonoma County our water supply does not rely on snow pack. Our primary source of water is reservoirs and ground wells, both of which are higher this year than they were last summer.

Moral of the story: Not all of California is facing severe water shortages, as some water agencies HAVE built water storage facilities in the form of lakes and reservoirs. So not only does every rain help us, cooler weather that prevents evaporation helps even when it's not raining.

Despite flush reservoirs, Sonoma County water officials stress | The Press Democrat

That’s not to say, however, that the crisis is over on the North Coast, experts said. The strain on groundwater — the other major local source aside from reservoirs — has managers especially concerned. Pumping, by farmers especially, has outpaced groundwater replenishment from rainfall across much of the state. Sonoma County’s aquifers, while not as heavily tapped as those in the Central Valley, for example, are still under significant pressure. Conservation will continue to be key, water managers said.

It's only a matter of time for Sonoma and Mendocino County.

[LoriBee62]

Is it just my imagination, or is there an inordinate amount of clinically depressed people on these forums?

[incognitoe]

Originally Posted by LoriBee62

Is it just my imagination, or is there an inordinate amount of clinically depressed people on these forums?

Yeah, they're always complaining. I was warned to stay away from Negative people. All they do is try to bring you down, in order for them to feel better about themselves.

It's no surprise that most of these Negative people are also the same idiots supporting D.UMP and his Supremacist views. (Catering to the lowest common denominator).

[LoriBee62]

Originally Posted by incognitoe

Yeah, they're always complaining. I was warned to stay away from Negative people. All they do is try to bring you down, in order for them to feel better about themselves.

It's no surprise that most of these Negative people are also the same idiots supporting D.UMP and his Supremacist views. (Catering to the lowest common denominator).

I am pretty sure this is the place depressed people go when they can't get out of bed in the morning. And like you, I don't have much patience for negativity. Life is WAY too short to waste it stressing and obsessing over what gloom might be lurking around the corner. Unfortunately, this place is much like a train wreck. You know it's going to be bad, but you just can't help yourself from taking a look and seeing HOW bad.

Brings to mind a quote I read the other day: "Life may hand you a cactus, but that doesn't mean you've got to sit on it."