Reservoir Fillage

Want to see what the rain has done?

http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/reservoirs/RES

Unfortunately, the big guns are still way, way too low. And King Big gun, the snowpack is only 40% of normal...long way to go.

I challenge mother nature to make me shovel the deck over Christmas and new years twice a day.
Bring it on bitch!

My X and daughter live in just over the border in OR, over the years they've had as much as 40 inches of snow at Xmas, as of today 0. 

The precip has been warm and localized so far, 

We have had 3years of below average rainfall. I can't believe people think that 3 storms will fix it.

Holy Cow! I drove by Nicasio Res. and Stafford Lake this morning and they are at their high water mark.

Shasta is on the way up. It has a long way to go,  but now that the ground is saturated,  It's going to keep coming up until next summer. We've got some momentum. It started snowing a bit around the higher elevations yesterday too!

Lexington Reservoir has a capacity of 19044 acre feet.

Last week's stormageddon brought Lex level from 3400 AF to 5437 AF, a gain of 1737 AF. 

at that rate, ~ 8 more stormageddon's to bring the lake to capacity.  Assuming a linear fill rate, but who really knows.  that's one stormageddon every other week from now until May 21, 2015.  Soooooooooooooooooo that pretty much ain't gonna happen!   

Check my math.  http://alert.scvwd.dst.ca.us/rgi.php

Lake Shasta has a capacity of 4,552,000 acre feet.

Stormageddon brought Shasta from 1,170,769 AF up to 1,400,864 AF = 230095 AF gain.

~13 1/2 additional similar storms to go from post-stormageddon levels to capacity.  In other words, unless we hit several biblical floods, we are eff-a-rood 

http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/resapp/resDetailOrig.action?resid=SHA

This is kind of scary. And really nothing we can do, but wait and hope?

Only if an NCKA rain dance might help 

Lake Shasta has a capacity of 4,552,000 acre feet.

Stormageddon brought Shasta from 1,170,769 AF up to 1,400,864 AF = 230095 AF gain.

~13 1/2 additional similar storms to go from post-stormageddon levels to capacity.  In other words, unless we hit several biblical floods, we are eff-a-rood 

http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/resapp/resDetailOrig.action?resid=SHA

I believe the news is a little better, Shasta historical average level for this time of year is 2,750,000 AF, historical average high level in June after snow run-off is about 3,800,000 AF, although we need a lot more rain/snow we did make a nice dent in the drought, lake is up 12% in the last two weeks.

The 87-92 drought ended in 1 year. It's still early but things are looking good.

Lex has gone up 23ft since the Thanksgiving storm. Another 44ft and it'll spill over.

Lex has gone up 23ft since the Thanksgiving storm. Another 44ft and it'll spill over.

That's why i think lake height measure is a little deceptive.  The lake is not cylindrical = nonlinear fill rate.  Filling the top 23 feet with one storm would probably submerge SilValley.  But we could top off the lowest 23 feet with couple six packs and a mere drizzle

In Napa, Lake Hennessey is up 10 feet this month alone and is 7 feet shy of full.

The graph for Milliken Reservoir is insane. Its a steep, non-accessible lake in the eastern hills of Napa. It rose almost 30 feet in a day after the big storm on the 11th. Wow !

Vasona is at 101% What more could you ask for?