May 12, 2022
In California, millions of residents and thousands of farmers depend on the Bay-Delta for fresh water—but they can’t agree on how to protect it.
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In California, millions of residents and thousands of farmers depend on the Bay-Delta for fresh water—but they can’t agree on how to protect it.
The long-running drought in the Southwest, which has persisted since 2000, can now be considered the driest 22-year period of the past 1,200 years, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change.
Unfortunately this image displays low water and snowpack levels in my home state; the drought isn't looming it's already here! This effects both wildlife and agriculture not to mention all the dry vegetation can act as tinder for the fire season. Solutions do exist but getting everyone to agree on anything these days feels impossible. We are dealing with variation in the weather here but even climate change is controversial, in god we trust.
New research recently published in Science Advances found that atmospheric rivers accounted for 84% of flood damages, or $42.6 billion, across the western United States from 1978-2017. Supported by RISA and co-authored by California-Nevada RISA principal investigators Thomas Corringham, Alexander Gershunov, and Daniel Cayan, the study analyzed 40 years of data from the National Flood Insurance Program to quantify atmospheric rivers’ economic impacts. Not only were atmospheric...
WTF it's May and it's raining?!?!?! I thought this only happened in from Thanksgiving to Epiphany. Huh, maybe there's a hurricane in Mexico.
Someone who grew up during a SoCal drought.
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Unless you live somewhere else other than the West Coast, then you’re fully aware of the recent deluge and so-called “atmospheric river” that has blasted many parts across the western front of the United States. In the five-year, drought stricken State of California, water is flowing incessantly from every nook and cranny, gushing water into the parched and thirsty landscapes. It is a welcome…
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I'm in the Valley now and it's really alarming to see all these bare, dusty fields because there's not enough water to continue growing crops there.
God be like
Back by popular demand: rain in California