California Drought: Reservoir levels rising & La Niña is dead; Time for "proactive" water management
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- California Drought: Reservoirs water levels rising and La Niña is dead
ABC10 meteorologist Brenden Mincheff takes a look at reservoir and snowpack levels, and also talks with water experts about levees, flooding, and budgetary cutbacks.
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What do you think California needs in order to be more proactive with water management?
Several more midsized reservoirs and more aqueduct connections.
Science and engineers as well voting for non climate change deniers holding ANY political office.
Evaporation stations, first step in the precipitation cycle. I've been saying this for over a year, and look at this now.
Outside your home, place a water bowl. Evaporate into the air it will. Make rain and many good crops.
The state need to invest heavily into ground water refill stations. Since we don’t let the valley flood anymore, the aquifers will never refill as they naturally would. Without effectively refilling the aquifers, we will never be out of these drought conditions. Even with an amazing water year like we’re having now.
Continuing the high speed rail should help
Im down in San Diego County and I watch this guy exclusively to get my state weather and drought info. Excellent coverage.
Yeah he’s really informative and entertaining.
He is a Sacramento treasure man
Bruh your in southern California 💀 it hasn't flooded down there😂 San Diego is very far from sac
Very informative. Even if not in Sacramento. It's good the station allows these in depth reports.
Where you from pal?
If only every news channel was like ABC10. You guys are so much more informative in your coverage than most.
The best video I’ve seen explaining drought status, snowpack, El Niño vs La Niña, and water management challenges and concerns. Really good work and I will be back for more content from him.
Really informative , best i have seen thx
Excellent talk. He reminds me of a GREAT college professor!
Very nice video. It explains the situation better than anyone else. Thank you.
As a beginner skier, I've excused myself from going to the ski resorts for years, siting not want to ski in manufacturd snow. 😮
My excuse has come to an end. Getting my ski pants from storage 🤪
love this guy and his drought report!
He gets paid every time he says the word drought.
Please love and respect 🫡 our Sacramento news
Very bold statement....don't let your guard down California. Mother Nature is just getting started. The water hasn't even settled yet...just sayin.
Jan. 2017 La Nina, Jan. to March La Niña 2023, both epic rains.
Excellent presentation did not make it too complicated good for all to understand
What’s the current groundwater table at? What happens when all this water fills in the gaps in the ground? Then what?
Earthquakes
Excellent overview of our water resources and future needs. Thank you
Relax. Our Demorrhoidal Masters led by Warden Hair Gel will declare a water emergency and drought and a ban on watering lawns (except for his) come this Summer.
Frigging buttholes!
Does anyone else think that looking at the data presented here there needs to be more water storage in the Southern Sierra? If those reservoirs are already that full, why not expand them? Or create smaller ones downstream?
Actually, that's what needs to be done everywhere --- smaller reservoirs downstream of the 'big' ones to catch the overflow. Or more berm creation in the Sierras to slow the water down.
Environmentalists and NIMBYism are usual hinders. Believe me gov tried to build more reservoir or dams for years.
Have you heard of sites reservoir?
It's almost like they shouldn't have killed all the beavers or something
@@raopsepolwe actually voted against it in 2016 because of cost way I see it it's an investment
It’s time we start building reservoirs in Los Angeles area. I’m sick of supplying the water for the whole state.
It should say RIP drought too. 93% of California is drought free or in the lowest tier of drought. The snowpack is already at 215% of yearly average. The reservoirs combined are already at their historical average. There are more storms right around the corner and in late March. This drought is over and they should just say it already.
See 2019 for a similar happy report.
I kind of hated repeated storm but after watching this video, I realized that it’s something I have to bare for greater good.
Never trust a guy who wears a Cardigan over a necktie.
They make the best science guys
Water is low 😢 climate change.!..no no no water is high!....😢 climate change 😢😮....lol...
Happy for all the rain. Like always wait till next year or the year after, things can change for the worst. We should still find ways to save water.
Why is Trinity lake still in such a bad shape? It's only some 20 miles away from Shasta lake....
Right? Now that's a question I was asking myself. I wonder how that happens when they keep releasing water from reservoirs that are not at capacity? And the subsequent flooding in the areas?
They're doing "ongoing maintenance" of the penstock intake. Why they are doing this now rather than last summer is a question for a journalist to ask. Search "Siskiyou News Water From Trinity Lake is Being Drained for Repairs"
Trinity typically gets more of its water from snowmelt, rather than rainfall. Look for it to “catch up” in late Spring and Summer.
@@revelation13_9 this state is god awful at managing water. So so dumb
I cannot figure out how a Sacramento market station can cover the weather so much better than all of the Bay Area stations, even its sister ABC affiliate in the Bay Area (KGO) where Spencer Christian landed. All of the meteorologists at KGO talk around the same lame color map. They zip through the movement of the precipitation so quickly that you have to pause the coverage to see where the rain will be hitting a particular area at a specific time later that day.
But even though LA is technically "drought-free" according to the map, isn't it still in a drought due to its water source (the Owens Valley) being in a drought?
Make Tulare Lake into a permanent lake to capture farming water
Great wisdom on display from a problem solver.
Thanks for the comprehensive overview of conditions.
if it wasn't for the 2021-22 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai eruption which added 10% more moisture to the atmosphere, we would still be in a drought.
Problem is get one year of heavy rain then 3 years of very little rain can't restore the snowpack in the Rocky Mountains with just one year.
He was good in Titanic as Jack Dawson as well
Percentage wise Fresno is the one who's really above normal. The Central San Joaquin Valley doesn't get much rain in an average year so for them to be as much above average as Sacramento in inches is a big deal. Its really great because the San Joaquin Valley desperately needs to get its ground water recharged. This year will help.
We are in a fiver drought dude
La Niña is dead?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'd have to agree. The cost of proactive management might seem difficult, but the role of the any government to protect its people. I can't imagine reactionary spending is the course we'd want to take with these types of things.
Do not construct structures in known ancient water ways.
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Rioters and other criminals having a bad time I wager!!
Trump still roams free in Florida. Dry winter, too.
Well done! So good to see our progress in getting out of drought. Thanks!!
This is one of the best segments on the entire situation in California I've seen thus far. Meticulous and also not boring. A job well done!
HARRP IS THE CAUSE , read the book of AMOS!!! But why would you cause most don't care .
As a forecaster /Meteorologist For NOAA NWS i want to give this guy a big shout out. very in depth reporting data to back up every statement . i dont know you personally cause our office is bit south of you, they have a Gem with you . keep it up and your hard work will pay off
What relevance are urban rainfall totals? None of our cities have anything approaching adequate water capture systems, so what falls runs to the sea. None of our cities pump groundwater as their supply, so these numbers don’t count towards that either. And, none of California’s cities have an adequate, sustainable source of water local to their populations. Water is imported to all of our major cities, often from hundreds of miles away and across multiple fault zone. Our water storage system is dependent on slow snow melt, not heavy rainfall, and the governor has to sign exemptions for communities that wish to capture rain water in fallow fields to replenish the water table, yet the process is so opaque and lacking in oversight there is no protections for keeping toxins, like pesticides out. We use 1/3 less water and power than the rest of the US, putting us on a par with Europe. But we still have too many lawns, too much water intensive landscaping, and too many water intensive crops, like almonds. We need to stop racing to call an end to droughts and do more to conserve more water, and build new ways to capture what water falls.
Just for the sake of speculation, if our lakes are going to be full long before that snow completely melts, and if the rain and snow begin again in September, With all the lakes and reservoirs full, what will happen when it begin a new melt? I'm not hopping for disaster but that's kind of what I'm seeing,
The drought is planes spraying metal oxides which have opposing ionization to water molecules forming into precipitation and high frequency antennas which have opposing ionization to water molecules forming into precipitation and the state water recources control board releasing water and backfilling water reservoirs with dirt using dredging machines.
Yay, now the greedy farmers can go back to growing the most thirsty, profitable crops possible.
Happy to hear the news for Lake Shasta. I initially thought it would only make it to 70%. I under-guesstimated again.
It's looking more and more like it could exceed 90% of capacity by the end of May. Mount Shasta has a huge amount of snow built up, that will come down both the Sacramento and McCloud rivers into the lake...and runoff currently is in full force in the lower elevation hills that is in the water shed. A near miraculous recovery, considering where it was on December 25th
@@fitcwebb That would be phenomenal if it hits that figure. One of the weather reports last month said the bulk of the AR's were going into Sacramento area, and Lake Shasta area was missing out on most of the storms-thus getting lighter snow amounts. It could have been the KCRA3 report that said that too. I want to see a before and after pic of lake.
@@3rdandlong Yeah, that report was false. We have had a ton of rain and snow up here
@@3rdandlong I regret to inform you that the DWP will no longer be using your guesstimates for future predictions of resivor levels. If you guess the peak summer level correctly we will reinstate your status as lead guestimatator.
too much opinion or feeling vs common sense, california's direction
Never heard of atmospheric rivers before 2018. 🤔
Terminology changes over time. Remarkable.
This may be some of the only truth somewhat you might hear from abc media 😂 After that, put on the sun glasses.
Cry me a river, La Nina drowned by an atmospheric river...
I would not gloat after three years of suffering.
I dream of a California with competent government. How long has it been?
Very useful, thanks so much. This makes it clear with data.
Why tell what you're going to tell, then tell what you said you were going to tell? Is it filler?
Great deep dive into the water situation in California.
That tombstone is a bit unsettling if you're a spanish speaker.
So fresno its not longer in drought , yaaaiii! Oh wait it's not a flooding alert in the area still? 😢😢
Brilliant video, thanks down here from the southland
You are the boss. Well done thank you
Now on another site they said El Niño was "DEAD" ?
I wish you show and compare the drought picture to the same date in 2017 & 2019. The drought monitor archive map page lets you pick any year and day.
This is such good reporting
Time to sell more water to Nestle so they can bottle it up
The cycle of drought to wet etc is nothing new. Historical data makes that clear.
The only thing that has changed in the last few decades is the increased demand and the continued negligence to expand supply infrastructure. Fortunately after years of obstruction by the usual environmental loons the new Sites Reservoir will soon break ground. Much more artificial aquifer recharging is needed as well and would be a huge improvement.
The Sites Reservoir isn't a solution of any sort to California's water problem but ... whatever.
@@sentientflower7891It will have a large storage capacity and will likely help increase aquifer recharging.
@@edwardsullivan5481 no & no. The Sites Reservoir will be empty all the time once it is built. The present wet winter is now the extreme outlier.
@sentientflower7891 2017 and 2019 were very wet and snowy as well. Both would have filled Sites just like this year and many years before.
There is no trend of vanishing wet/dry cycles.
@@edwardsullivan5481 no, that's just not factual. Sites Reservoir, had it existed at that time, would have been bone dry by 2020.
Chris Farley SNL "la NINA"
Good! La Nina has been the uninvited guest that completely overstayed her welcome. Good riddance!
Too little rain and snow or too many people?
Very useful; thank you. It would be even more useful to take the stored water (reservoirs, lakes and snowpack) and project what that means for available water to use in the different areas of the state this coming Summer.
what did the girl do? how did she die?
When its dry "climate change " when it rains, you guessed it, "climate change".
😂😂😂
Stupid people say the stupidest things!!!!!!
CA needs a few tsunamis
Actually they’re sinking. They’ll get water.
Just because God gave us some rain doesn't mean we should take the state off of drought watch and water saving
RIP biders admin
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Oh yeah now this is is the real informative weather/water reporting! Great resource
This guy’s enthusiasm for weather is everything
. 9:20 manage
Do not construct structures
In known ancient water ways.
Our ground water is contam
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Spot on
Great weather guy! Thanks for the info.
This is very helpful, keep up the good work 💯
This next two years will be very wet be ready!
I wonder, does the department that flies the jets that spray the sky, give the meteorologists the heads up or do they give them the information directly? Do they always have to flood the valley's by releasing water from reservoirs that are not even at capacity while we are actively fully saturated and taking on more rain? Just curious.
The snowpack is 200% normal so if you don't want your reservoirs overtopped and failed you must release the water.
she'll be back soon probably
of course as we get out of winter lol
"rest in peace little baby girl"
These drought sayers could be under a thousand feet of water and still say there was a drought.
Maybe you should read books rather than whine?
But we aren’t out of the woods yet. The water tables are so low, we need to continue to conserve.
The drought will never ever end!
Got it people!!
Yes. Listen to the music, not the song.
The drought is over where I live!
Because this state is run by stupid people
Because of the people's disdain for their Creator's laws:
Amos 4: 7,
I also have withholden the rain from you; when there were yet three months to the harvest, and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city ..
I'm confused. How can we be in a drought when they're literally flushing water out of the reservoir and into the pacific ocean. Those are water citizens could've used. That's equivalent to all citizens running their faucet 24X7. So when you're intentionally throwing away water, how can we be in a drought? Yes, Aquifer is low, but that doesn't explain why we're in a drought while we're intentionally throwing away water because we can't use it fast enough.
They have nowhere else to store the water. That's the problem
We are not in a drought.
The city still wants to fine us for using water in the summer, they will never say a drought is over.
Certain reservoirs have to release as they are an important part of the flood control. Folsom Lake will refill over three times during a rainy year to do its job of flood control.
The delta and ocean needs replenishment also.
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you are all wrong bad winters are the past / you will see
Build more reservoirs.....the population is growing
PEOPLE ADMIT LAKE MEADS RISING, HOPE YOU GET MORE RAIN.