California Getting Slammed With Rain Yo

[dannno]

Fear of mudslides tomorrow.

Drought may be over by the end of this rain season..

[Zippyjuan]

Won't end the drought but it will certainly help. It could get us up to normal snowpack for this time of year but ground water and reservoirs need more filling. Lots of snowpack melting will work on that.

https://goldrushcam.com/sierrasuntimes/images/2019/january/us-drought-map-january-8-2019.jpg

[dannno]

'Go Now': Mandatory Evacuations Ordered in California; I-5 Shut Down in Both Directions
Residents in parts of Southern California have been ordered to evacuate as the first of a parade of storm systems has started soaking areas scorched by last year's Holy Fire.


Officials in Riverside County issued a "MUST GO" order effective 7 a.m. local time (https://twitter.com/RivCoReady/status/1084837183851241478) for neighborhoods in the burn areas of August's Holy Fire, stating the risk of debris flows at a moment's notice. A voluntary evacuation warning was issued for areas of Orange County (https://twitter.com/OCSheriff/status/1084887577356689409) in the burn area.


In Los Angeles and Ventura counties, officials warned residents in the burn area of November's Woolsey Fire to be ready to evacuate in case the rain causes mudslides and debris flows (https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/california/Weather-Rain-Los-Angeles-Storm-Winter-Storm-Forecast-504314451.html), NBC 7 reported.



Interstate 5 at Grapevine was shut down in both directions (https://twitter.com/KGETnews/status/1084903018355720192) as snowy conditions made for dangerous travel in the area Monday afternoon, the California Highway Patrol announced. About 4:30 p.m., the patrol started to let vehicles stuck on the northbound lanes of the interstate drive to an exit, but the freeway remained closed to other traffic.


State Road 33, a possible alternate to I-5, was closed between Wheeler Gorge Campground and Route 166 because of snow.


The highway patrol also said State Highway 58 was closed (https://twitter.com/CHPCentralDiv/status/1084906702669983745)because of high winds that had caused several tractor-trailers to overturn. Shortly before 3 p.m. local time, State Road 138 was closed (https://twitter.com/CHPCentralDiv/status/1084946842045931520).


More than 10,500 customers had lost electricity (https://poweroutage.us/) as of 3 p.m., according to PowerOutage.us.


A mudslide closed closed all lanes of the Pacific Coast Highway (https://twitter.com/CaltransDist7/status/1084894598793555968)from Trancas Canyon Road and Broad Beach Road in Malibu to Las Posas Road in Ventura County, Caltrans District 7 reported. The highway was closed until about 4:30 p.m. so the mudslide could be cleared.


Shortly before 5 p.m., Caltans said the right lane of the Pacific Coast Highway at Chautauqua Boulevard (https://twitter.com/CaltransDist7/status/1084977207422812161) in Santa Monica was closed because of a mudflow.


"There is the potential of mudslides and debris flows at recent burn scars (https://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=CAZ048&warncounty=CAC065&firewxzone=CAZ248&local_place1=2%20Miles%20W%20Canyon%20Lake%20CA&product1=Flash+Flood+Watch&lat=33.6775&lon=-117.2976#.XDy89s9KhTZ), particularly near the Holy Fire burn scar," the National Weather Service wrote in its warning. "Debris flows can happen suddenly with little time to act. Heed the advice of local officials."


The second, fast-moving storm in the series to hit California is expected to move into the area Tuesday into early Wednesday with a potential for rain and snow in the higher elevations.


The third system, expected to be the strongest and wettest of the three, will hit the area Wednesday and Thursday.


Debris flows and mudslides are likely in areas where heavy rain hits, considerably burn areas.

https://weather.com/news/news/2019-01-14-california-parade-rain-snow-impacts

[RonZeplin]

'Go Now': Mandatory Evacuations Ordered in California; I-5 Shut Down in Both Directions

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?530321-Go-Now-Mandatory-Evacuations-Ordered-in-California-I-5-Shut-Down-in-Both-Directions

Cal-Exit

[dannno]

Closed roads today:

https://i.imgur.com/twyZ8tp.jpg

[RonZeplin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGs2iLoDUYE

[timosman]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-drought-idUSKCN1QW09A


MARCH 14, 2019

California was declared totally drought free for the first time in more than seven years on Thursday, following unusually abundant winter rains and snowfall statewide, according to the government’s weekly report on U.S. drought conditions.

The U.S. Drought Monitor’s latest survey reflected an astonishing turnaround - at least for now - from a severe, prolonged dry spell that reduced irrigation supplies to farmers, forced strict household conservation measures and stoked a spate of deadly, devastating wildfires.

A relatively small swath of California’s southern-most region, including most of San Diego County, remains labeled “abnormally dry” on the drought map index, as does a tiny patch at the state’s extreme northern end along the Oregon border.

But this week marks the first time since mid-December of 2011 that 100 percent of the state has been classified as being free of drought, defined as a moisture deficit severe enough to cause social, environmental or economic ills. Conditions were classified as normal across 93 percent of the state.

The current picture marks a major improvement from just one year ago, when nearly 70 percent of California was still classified as suffering from moderate to severe drought.

What made the difference was one of the wettest winters on record in California - a series of Pacific storms that have replenished lakes and reservoirs and left the Sierra Nevada mountain snowpack, the state’s largest single source of fresh surface water, well above normal.

It was just three years ago when the Sierra snowpack had dwindled to virtually zero. Two years later, in early 2017, then-Governor Jerry Brown rescinded a statewide drought declaration following record rainfall.

Experts say swings from drought to deluge, or the reverse, are an illustration of variability in weather extremes that California can be expected to experience in an era of climate change.

“Dry conditions can easily creep back in,” Jessica Blunden, a climate scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), told the Los Angeles Times.

Well-above-average precipitation this winter across the wider U.S. West has helped ease drought conditions throughout much of the region, filling reservoirs and restoring sparse snowpacks but also causing avalanche hazards in Colorado, the Drought Monitor summary said.

The weekly report is prepared by experts from NOAA, the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska, the U.S. Agriculture Department.

[Anti Federalist]

Experts say swings from drought to deluge, or the reverse, are an illustration of variability in weather extremes that California can be expected to experience in an era of climate change.

HAHAHAHAHA I knew it.

Drought? OMFG Man Made Climate Change, we're all gonna die!!!

No Drought? OMFG Man Made Climate Change, we're still probably all gonna die!!!

No, assenholes...it's called weather.

Half of that god forsaken state is desert, of course it's gonna be normally dry.

FFS...

[Anti Federalist]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGs2iLoDUYE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtW8RkI3-c4