With more rain and snow on the way, the supposed “unending drought” that the New York Times reported on last year has, in a matter of weeks, ended — at least in Northern California.
Yesterday’s color satellite imagery from NASA shows the dramatic changes which have occurred since the same date three years ago:
NASA Aqua MODIS color satellite imagery of N. California separated by exactly three years, showing dramatic snowpack increase, vegetation greening, and river discharge into the Pacific Ocean.
– Widespread and deep snowpack
– Greening vegetation
– Rivers overflowing their banks
– Strong river discharge into the Pacific Ocean
Here’s a zoomed version of the NASA Terra MODIS image yesterday covering the San Francisco Bay area northeastward toward Sacramento:
NASA Terra MODIS zoomed image on 13 January 2017 covering San Francisco to Sacramento.
The latest GFS model forecast for the next 10 days predicts another 2 to 10 inches of rain, depending on location, with several more feet of snow at higher elevations.
Source: Satellite Reveals End of “Unending” N. California Drought « Roy Spencer, PhD
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Now it’s the unending CA flood! Already 80+ inches where I live and several months left to go in the season. NorCal is on pace to break all-time rainfall records, NorCal dams are already full… As emergency spillway flows, state says repairs to crippled Oroville Dam could run $200 million
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