Comments by "S S" (@SS-yj2le) on "ABC7" channel.

A tropical storm and unlike this one, this is the first to have had a warning in California history.
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There is also the issue that the state has been in continuous drought for so long that even these rains and snows are not enough.
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@MinusEighty To fill the same water supplies throughout the state, it would take multiple years worth of rain to fully fill. That is how much the drought has depleted the water supplies. Using plants are a false analogy due to them only being affected by the amount they can and do consume rather than what is simply available long term. Let's say you have a bottle that can hold a liter of water. A person usually drinks the same amount and refills it by .25 liters per day. If one day, they decide to not refill the bottle. Then the repeat that again the next day. All while still drinking .25 liters. Then the next day, they decide to refill after completely drinking all the contents. But in order to get the same amount of water they originally had, they would have to completely refill the water bottle with a full liter rather than fill it with .25 liters of water. It is the same concept with the water supplies here in California being dried due to using water for agriculture while the winter rains and snows are far lower and far less frequent. It is also always needed due to how dry California generally is during the summer with the only precipitation generally being little mountain thunderstorms and southern monsoons.
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@MinusEighty You are just wrong. A lot of them are at 80% capacity, but not all of them. Looking at the very same report under here, about a third of the state is still in a drought with the conditions being around some of the most important water supplies in Northern California. The Colorado is still doing very poorly for the southeastern part of the state. You also have ground water which takes more time due to water needing to seep into the ground. There is also the issue of the fact that the dry weather patterns are still around. This is an event that is an outlier with a drying trend of the west coast. Going back to your plants analogy, the plants need to also be watered again at some point correct? When does that water exactly return again? Do some of the dead plants that died from having no water come back to life from the next event like this one? Timing of the rains are what you are also failing to consider here. Having this drying trend is still a pattern which the whole continental west coast is experiencing. The averages for receiving the necessary precipitation to avoid the drought conditions. I don't think you even really understand what a drought even really is. There are still rain events in various places with droughts. So, you are kind of making a gross over-simplification of something you don't have an understanding of. Severe drought is mostly gone with drought conditions having definitely been eased, but a third of the state is still not there yet. The state still also has the new harder drying trend with the Pacific Northwest due to climate change.
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@MinusEighty Not all of them. Plus, they are also within the Sacramento watershed. The most important river in Nothern California and equally if not, more important than the San Joaquin. You don't know what you are talking about at all. In fact, you don't even seem to understand how California's climate system even works. Once again with the drought, the groundwater needs time. Especially due to the runoff. There is a drought just as the moon still exists and doesn't not exist simply because you don't see it. That is the same reasoning I am seeing from you here. For the drought, that isn't the only factor. Not all the lakes and reservoirs are at 80% capacity which is considered abnormally dry or in a drought. Once again, you missed ground water and you still fail to understand that the climate is still drier than it should be.
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@MinusEighty The worst drought in over 1200 years. Warmer temperatures on average in both the air and warmer sea temperatures. San Francisco gets only 1/3 of the fog it usually receives. The way in which it varies is what has changed. Did you not pay attention to the thunderstorms that stranded people in Death Valley in the summer? The time where California normally never gets any rain and very little may fall over the mountains in Southern California? Sea temperatures getting possibly warm enough to allow a possible future hurricane to strike.
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@MinusEighty The reasoning for why California has been so much drier is that warmer weather pushing the cells farther north and longer than they are suppose to. It is also why Oregon and Washington have also gotten drier.
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@MinusEighty Trinity contributes to the Sacramento and for low, I'm not simply talking about low. I mean simply below average. Most are at closer levels to normal, but not all of them. Though frankly, this is outdated due to the recent rain and snowstorm that hit southern California. The drought levels of the state are probably down from now 1/3 to only like a fifth now.
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@MinusEighty The ground water doesn't seep all of the benefits of the winter rain and snow generally until April when the snow melt from the Sierra Nevada runs out into the central valley and snowmelt from the father mountains aids Southern California areas.
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@MinusEighty You do realize that California has the largest agriculture industry in the entire world, right? Of course, we are going to use more ground water. We have always used more water. The issue here is supply. Supply being lower due to lower water reserves as they are dependent on rain and snow. Also why the state has sought more de-salinization.
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@MinusEighty You are just wrong. We have always been using loads of water and have had ridiculously high demand. Forty million people is too small as we feed other states and countries too. We have been doing this for so long too. Even a hundred years ago when they diverted water from the Colorado to Los Angeles as the Owen's Valley water wasn't enough supply for the city anymore. For averages, the averages are all down and not even just on the American continental west coast. Places with the same climate type as California like Southern Europe are also down on their averages. San Francisco was confirmed to have lost about 2 inches on average compared to previous 30-year record keeping periods.
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