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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCA Sierra Nevada snow - 5 to 10...FEET over the next few days
https://www.weather.gov/sto/that's sort of a lot of snow
Retrograde
(10,211 posts)That's where much of the state's water supply comes from - and the more the better.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,393 posts)The Colorado river basin is in dire need of a good spring runoff
msongs
(67,627 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,393 posts)But the water levels in Lakes Powell and Mead are a concern.
Mead hasn't been this low since it was filling after the Hoover Dam was built. Lake Powell is in the same situation.
http://mead.uslakes.info/level.asp
http://lakepowell.water-data.com/
What they need is a major hurricane type drenching in the upper basin to fill those lakes again!
Millions of people and thousands of acres of agriculture depend on the Colorado River watershed. It has been experiencing a long term drought for a decade or more.
FirstLight
(13,406 posts)I'll believe it when I see it.
It was supposed to be awful today, start snowing by 4...
It's just starting to get windy now, still nothing...not even flurries...
Maybe tomorrow I will wake up buried, but ya, nothing yet!
MiniMe
(21,732 posts)A few weeks ago, we were supposed to get 4-6 inches. We ended up with 12.7 inches. We were supposed to get maybe an inch Wednesday, we got about 4 inches and it just kept snowing long after they said it was done. So sometimes they are very wrong, and sometimes they are right, and even underestimate.
Right now it's just rain... been raining all nite. It's 36 degrees, not quite cold enough for snow... I expect it should start sticking maybe midday?
SunSeeker
(51,990 posts)We've had so little snowpack over recent years that streams dried out by Spring. This means we might have rushing streams through summer. And this will help our drought-stricken pines.
RockRaven
(15,191 posts)given recent drought years, we need as much precip as we can get...
Brother Buzz
(36,532 posts)and two feet projected for lake level, Tahoe. This isn't going to be a wicked killer storm, but it certainly will be significant.
byronius
(7,423 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,532 posts)question everything
(47,713 posts)and not let it all flow into the ocean?