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California Water Update February 2024: From Drought to Deluge
Welcome to a special edition of the California Water Update for February 2024. In a twist of fate, we're moving away from our usual drought updates to share some groundbreaking news. This month, California has been the recipient of not one, but three major atmospheric rivers, transforming the state's water landscape. But what impact have these storms had on our water reserves? Stay tuned as we dive deep into the latest developments, from the resurgence of Trinity Lake to the unprecedented creation of a new lake in Death Valley, and the promising recovery of the snowpack levels. Don't forget to engage with us - hit that like button, drop your thoughts in the comments, and join us timeBomb, as we give you the latest on California's water situation.
This week is packed with crucial updates, and we'll be zipping through each topic to deliver you the most comprehensive insights without taking up too much of your time.
⦁ Trinity Lake's Turnaround: Once lagging behind in recovery post-drought, Trinity Lake is now over 71% full, a significant leap from its previous levels.
⦁ Death Valley's New Lake: A phenomenon turned fixture? We explore the enduring presence of Death Valley's new lake, a rarity for one of the driest places on Earth.
⦁ Snowpack Surprises: The numbers are in, and they might just surprise you. We're covering the latest snowpack data, signaling a promising shift for California's water supply.
In-Depth Updates:
Trinity Lake has risen dramatically, now boasting a water level increase that marks a significant recovery.
The new lake in Death Valley, a result of Hurricane Hilary's unprecedented rainfall, challenges the fleeting nature of ephemeral lakes in the region.
Statewide snowpack levels are on the rise, with a current standing at 85% of normal and 70% of the April 1st average.
This episode is a testament to California's ever-changing water narrative, offering a glimmer of hope after years of drought. Your support through likes, comments, and subscriptions fuels our content. Stay tuned for next week's update, and thank you for joining us on this journey towards a water-resilient California.
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:21 Trinity Lake Update
03:55 Death Valley Lake
05:18 Drought Update
06:04 Snowpack Update
I can guarantee one thing. Our water bills in CA won’t go down.
You've got that right!
Every county water district in Commiefornia will empty the lakes as quickly as they can for any excuse. Usually Earthquake related or the tried and true Commie tactic of "invasive species." Communists cant live without a multitude crisis to take full advantage of. What they always ignore is that their policies cause most of the "crisis."
Seems like only wages go down.
Use less and it will be lower...
@@terrancestodolka4829 unfortunately not. The less we use is just temporary lower bill until they raise fees, and surcharge and mishmash and it shoots right back up even higher. If you were old enough to be paying bills for 40 years you’d know that and stop kidding yourself.
The desert bloom should be beautiful this spring 😊
Right after you posted this the National weather service just issued a blizzard warning for most of the northern sierra with upwards of 6 to 12 FEET of snow potentially
Who cares?
@@bobsmith6544Who cares what you say troll
Keep it coming
@@bobsmith6544 if you don't care, why are you watching this video?
California has always had these weather extremes. Always! Drought or drown is the historic norm.
Oh no, if you buy an electric car CA weather will stabilize. Just you.
Drought or drown! I love that phrase!
But drought conditions have been far worse than usual for the last 20 years.
Nope. Worst drought CA had in recent times was 1977 and 1978. How long they been keeping accurate records of climate in CA? @@timthompson8297
But the recent norm is destroying existing dams...
I live in Virginia, and I keep an eye on California.This is great news, enjoy the Water.
Nope. Commiefornia is actively demolishing existing dams. They don't want water, they want destruction and misery! THIS IS HORRIBLE NEWS.
Thank you.
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Everything is green almost like VA.
I do exactly the same thing from Chicago.
Good reporting. Feb rains and snow really did the trick. Let's hope we get another couple of big storms to pad our snow pack up and down California.
Why? You are destroying existing dams. Your snow pack does NOTHING>
One thing that concerns me is our underground water, which has been used for so long. Is there any number on how much has the nature replenished it. thank you.
Great question
That's mostly San Joaquin valley farmers and people illegally over-pumping water from a much deeper water table than the norm for decades even against regulations. Why? They grow Almonds - the most ABSURD thing to grow when you have no water Almonds should be illegal to grow where natural resources are a concern but greed 101 doesn't care. Politics and greed as usual. These farmers can only blame themselves for cutting their own necks - for NUTS. Otherwise groundwater is mostly not a problem in California except for the idiots in the San Joaquin valley where it is DEEP aka harder than usual to replenish even if you OBEY the regulations. 🎬
For $$? Tisk tisk. Pumping the wells to grow the food you eat. Now sadly when you deplete the water table it doesn't exactly come back. It's not an underground lake, it's more like a sponge. When the farmer is forced to pump from the well the earth above compresses the sponge. This is evident when comparing geo surveys from 60 or 70 years ago to today.
@@mvtorigian4364 The business of food is typical capitalism and the farms in SJ valley (again w/ground water much deeper than other valleys) that know they use a limited regulated resource illegally well, they are getting what they deserve - dry wells. Sucks for them but they are growing freakin Almonds which should be illegal to grow they take so much water in any State let alone CA. Idiots. 🎬
Yes. There is. It took millions of years and the end of the ice ages to put that aquifer under Arizona and it will never return to it's prior state. As the water is drained out of that valley, the valley will sink and crack and eventually start to turn to dust and sand. Then, in about 500k years, it will be a sand desert. 😊
Utah resident here. Glad to hear our downstream neighbors have been blessed with this bounty. Hope they don’t waste this opportunity with bad policy
Huh? They are actively demolishing dams.
Unfortunately, “Hope” is their strategy.
Don't worry, they will
@@jaernihiltheus7817like what farming? Lol
@@99RyanFTW oh, no. I should've probably been more clear. California will definitely go with the worst possible policy and not take advantage of the situation (or take too much advantage), so don't worry about whether or not they will... because it's a foregone conclusion.
make no mistake, despite the glut of water in the state, the water companies are on track to increase the water rates for all of california
Or make us drink toilet water
Trinity was low because of the precipitation pattern in Northern California. Amazingly Trinity is now looking good. That is almost a surprise. Thank you.
Great update. I noticed you used the Imperial Beach Pier for your thumbnail. It got me to click because I live there. But I am always interested in updates on our water situation.
Great info and updates. Thanks so much. We don't have news anymore, so this is just wonderful.
Always encouraging to get good news!
How is this good news?
@@bobsmith6544 compared to what the reservoir levels and snow pack were 2 mos ago? Its night and day .
That’s great news- thanks for the info.
Seeing so much water gives me hope. Keep praying!
Why?
> See if you can send some of that water to the Texas panhandle. Things are pretty desperate.
Thanks for the news!!!!!!
Wow. This was done before the blizzard.
Thanks for the update.
Great news More Reservoirs need to be built as well
Democrats don’t want reservoirs. They want to tear down damns and have water restrictions with fines. Try to keep up.
So cool, thanks.
Thank you
Great information
I just discovered your channel yesterday and am impressed with the information you provide -- both in factual content and quality of presentation. Excellent work! Although I'm in Texas and have no ties to California, we have similar water shortages here -- and NO mountains or snow melt to replenish our lakes.
Great post and information.
Great video on the current condition of the Sierra-Nevada & how it compares to last year 👍 Cali needs another lake 😎
There’s another major storm on its way. Looking forward to next week’s report. Thank you.
Great reporting. Facts!!!
Hoping for a Huge Harvest this spring, summer and fall! We just prune our fruit trees and they have a LOT of buds, the green houses are full of greens. Not going to grow corn this summer, going to use that field for melons instead. Thanks for Praying for rain everyone.
Will we get some big fruits from California this summer?
That is excellent! Looking forward to some good-looking produce! Awesome that you have beautiful fruit trees. I love the Death Valley lake & wish it would stick around & grow!
This weekend expects to bring a decent snow fall to the Sierra's. Good news indeed.
As much as 8-12ft in some areas 😰🫡
How. Commiefornia is actively destroying dams...
Big Bear also reporting the 2nd most snowfall ever.
Thanks for the good news.
But did anyone learn from the droughts other than "Woo-HOO! We're off the hook!!"
Great thought!
With the major winter weather in the Sierra's I believe that the snow pack is well pass 100 percent.
Love to see a report on the aquifer status. Those are still being depleted, even with pumping back into the aquifers.
Despite all this rain, California will still take a monster share of the Colorado river water.
As they actively destroy their existing dams...
Sometimes, more rain than usual will change the thermal updrafts frequency, by adding more vegetation to areas that usually have more heat absorbed into the ground. As a consequence, the cooler air will hold less moisture and rain may fall where, ordinarily, moisture is usually lifted up and over the parched land and the arid condition continues. It would be nice to have Death Valley become more conducive to life...stranger things have happened.
Many friends have said lots of flowers in the desert right NOW!
Sometimes the latent heat flux can do the opposite, reducing rainfall around the temporary lake. It depends on geography and winds.
In 1980, I was stationed at Camp Irwin (now Fort Irwin), located at the southern end of the Death Valley region. As we entered the Camp, signs overhead proclaimed it to be the driest US military complex, at less the 1/4" of rain annually. By August, there was over 2 feet of rain-water accumulated in the center of Camp. Some places saw close to 4 feet! After about a week, the water was all gone, but the desert was in full bloom! Never seen such color.
Great video!
We are full up here in Lake Shasta and even letting extra out.
Happens every few years and the landscape is Beautifull. And hopefully refills a bit of the aquifer.
It takes about 10,000 years to refill an aquifer. Fact checked.
Good news. Glad to hear that. I live in florida and we're normally the opposite. For us, excess of water is the problem.
Going to be a lot of wild flowers this year.
I spent a few years living in California back in the late seventies. So it warms my heart to know California is once again getting plenty of water! Death Valley Used to Be a large lake before it all evaporated away! Seashells can still be found!
Yes, interestingly enough...Death Valley's "Badwater Basin" started to fill and remains a smaller lake today...for awhile. The last time Death Valley actually was a lake was some 120,000 years ago.
It will last 3 weeks...
good sensible presentation, proffessionism upermost ..well done fella
would love for you to research and give updates like this for Texas. Central Texas has an unusially horrible drought, especially for the Guadalupe River & Canyon Lake area...
Very interesting - was at Lake Shasta, probably 20-years ago, now, when levels were desperately low - wonderful to see it so full AT LAST! Is there anywhere new reservoirs could go in to alleviate future droughts? Although, didn't I see in places they are blowing them up! Or otherwise getting rid of them - hopefully NOT in California? Thanks for the Good News!
enjoy the good time while it is here. can't imagine what the next drought going to look like.
Wonderhussy went canoeing on the Death Valley lake last week!
It’s interesting that it’s so positive to almost make it to the average
This is all good news.
Why?
@@bobsmith6544 water is essential to life and California will have a normal water year and that means that drought is at least twelve months away and most likely at least 24 months away.
When was the last time California built a new reservoir? What has been the population increase since then? How many desalination plants were completed since the completion of the last reservoir?
Excellent reporting. I love your structured approach to the video. Very professional
Good news
Nice job creating this video and you have a good voice for voiceover
The "voice" is a computer voice, not a human narrator.
Thank you for this . Can you talk about the forecast for March please
Let's all be thankful for the snow bunnies.
Thank You for the nicely explained report. I live in Michigan and very much understand that Precipitation in California affects the prices that virtually all US residents pay for food. . . .
Got to stop this climate change can’t have lakes filling up like this
It would be nice to hear the plan for a very wet spring during the melt...Can enough be released from reservoirs fast enough?
They are not full, and commiefornia is actively destroying dams...
RAIN DANCE FOR THE COLORADO RIVER ⛈️ 🌧 ❄️ KOKOPELLI 💃🕺⛈️🌧❄️❄️
Is the aerial footage your own drone?
Over the past 60 years, I have lived in several states. No matter where I lived, one thing I have always observed is that some years we get a lot of rain and snow, and some years we get less. I think the technical term is "weather." Of course, if you choose to live in a desert and devote the land to inappropriate uses, then you may suffer more in drier years.
What is the justification for watering agriculture in the daytime under the sun? Why not at night when less evaporation would ensue?
When I left California back in 1977 with the state having had two years of severe drought. My camellias wouldn't bloom because there was no winter chill. January temperatures in the San Fernando Valley were in the 80s. California is a coastal desert, so not surprisingly droughts occur with great regularity. We pulled out of LA in October and by the end of November the state was in flood mode.
Exactly. There is NO drought in commiefornia. They just refuse to use their water!
Would love to see something on Ruth Lake resiviour
Glad to hear. Hopefully our Govnt. can move their back sides and start rapidly implementing some better water capture systems.
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Sounds like things may be going in a positive direction. But now I want Dane Wigingtons opinion of these water levels! 🤔
Does the watershed for Trinity Lake primarily occur on the leeward side of the mountain range?
They should use these opportunities to collect as much water as possible while still instituting water conservation measures so they never experience drought again.
The story isn't over, because California is now having some blizzards and excessive snow events. So it would likely be another good water year.
And yet the water prices will still double...
Hope they consider that the area will return to drought.
And as the Cal. drought subsides….think cities will decrease the cost of water?? NO F….N WAY..!!!
RIGHT! Our water bill goes up during the drought but the water bill stays the same.
What puzzles me is you have had a very sharp strong El Nino from the last three years of La Nina, yet only a little below average snowpack and total rain flow collection. It concerns me that you should be having vastly above average levels of both.
What is this new snowstorm (blizzard) going to do to Trinity Lake, Shasta Dam and Oroville dam? Will the Cental Val!ey be ok?
I love watching California go from freaking out about no raid and many fires to freaking out about a ton of rain and no fires. I can’t wait till California is reclaimed by the sea.
Tulare Lake is now reported as being dried up. I’m wondering how much water the Salton Sea has gotten and if the atmospheric rivers have helped restore some water levels there.
Most homes in the San Juaquin Valley have no water meter. They can use all they want with no restrictions
This is only a temporary boon to the incredibly short-sighted People's Republic of Californiastan. The state has steadfastly refused to build more aqueducts and reservoirs to store excess water for dryer times. As soon as the state returns to its typical amount of rain and snow, it'll grow parched again.
Can we get a chicken dinner over here please!
Trinity alps. my old summer hiking stomping grounds. sigh.
How is Yuma AZ doing
So what is the height of the snow level..? Five feet, ten feet, or 15 feet..?
Doesn't matter as long as they keep destroying existing dams.
Five days later I bet Cali is 100% of its total snowfall and the drought just maybe over the this year. Now the fire season just maybe a bitch if no one doesn’t keep an eye on it.
How many droughts and floods will it take for Californians to understand that Sacramento has no plans of fixing it?
Saving Snail darters, queers ,protecting immigration criminal element remains top priority
“By the book” with Trinity Lake needs to change by the BLM. Capture the water to 75% of capacity in the reservoir and then release. Let poor Trinity fill up!!
We need more Co in the atmosphere
More what???
go snowboarding at mammoth in april. should be nice and fun. t shirt.
Images show shower irrigation instead of root level drip irrigation and open to sun and wind irrigation channels. All of this leads to immense water loss due to evaporation. I realise these are stock images from the past, but I haven't seen any info that conservation methods are being implemented as they are in Utah.
A lake, in a lake bed. Hardly astonishing.
God has answered the prayers of many to bring rain now we deal with the aftermath … but be glad we have water and snow … thank you Lord Jesus
Jesus did not have a damn thing to do with it. First you say god took care of this problem, then you say Jesus (an historical human) did. Which is it?
@@roberthenry9319 God the Father and God the Son are one in essence … I know it’s hard for you to comprehend this but God had something to do with rain and snow in the sierra mountains … Jesus said “ask anything in my name and I will do it”
I wonder what the current condition of Tulare Lake is.
You need to add water table levels. California can drain all these lakes in 6 months. The underground water tables need about 30-60 more years like this to be back to normal (prior to drilling) levels.
Well, this good news for Cali and, boy, they need it. We, on the East coast are pulling for you. As Cali goes...so goes the nation. Get rid of Gov. Gruesome...
He is a good governor. Who is your governor?
@@maryhobbs4183 Found the most delusional person on Earth here!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@maryhobbs4183 if you think he is good, then we have no common ground for discourse....be well...
What state are you in? Why not say? Coward.
Any word on Tulare Lake?
How long of atmospheric rivers before would come atmospheric oceans
Death Valley and the Salton Sea could both be filled using sea water. The Salton Sea by Gravity from the Sea of Cortez (it could be desalinized to a degree using reverse osmosis) and the salt water going into it would reduce its salinity. Couldn't they make it an inland Sea of Cortez? I wonder if the salinity of the Death Valley lake is higher than that of sea water. Even if you didn't use sea water you could pump western slope excess catchments to the east slope... bottomline... much could and should be done to make water more available and abundant and less costly. Every dry lake in the desert was a real lake in the past. The Owen's Valley could have an abundance of water if LA would desalinate.
It is not municipal water usage that significantly depletes the state’s water resources, it is agriculture. Desalination of seawater for that extensive use is cost-prohibitive.
All commiefornia has to do is build dams instead of destroy them. Death valley is a national park and Salton sea is accidentally man made, so NO.
Wow. Good news for California. Will the media cover it?
How?
@@bobsmith6544 How what?
"I am not worried about drought for the rest of the year." Yeaah... That is way too short-sighted. California still needs to be more efficient with the water conservation, in order to mitigate future droughts. We can learn a lot from how Las Vegas use their water.
You can have your water, if you manage it well. Eyes on the supply
That's funny. Look up commiefornia destroying existing dams.
new logo!
Death Valley is the place to prospect for gold this year, all those fresh placer deposits from flooding, well you know where I'll be.