Last year was a low snow year, and it was compounded by a dry spring and summer. Since then then the weather has started to cooperate and the region is getting more normal precipitation.
Category: Drought
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Drought is a deficiency in precipitation over an extended period, usually a season or more, resulting in a water shortage causing adverse impacts on vegetation, animals, and/or people. It is a normal, recurrent feature of climate that occurs in virtually all climate zones, from very wet to very dry.
RH Line calls published Feb. 25, 2017
“Fort Collins’ objections to building the Glade Reservoir sound like the microcosm of what’s happened in California the last few decades.
Rural California levees besieged by pounding wet winter
Billions of dollars in flood projects have eased fears of levee breaks near California’s capital and some other cities, but state and federal workers are joining farmers with tractors in round-the-clock battles this week to stave off any chain-reaction failure of rural levees protecting farms and farm towns. As the wet winter forces operators of dams to send more water roaring downstream, the struggle to spot and shore up weak spots in nearly 1,600 miles of levees in the Central Valley is unrelenting, said Rex Osborn, spokesman for emergency operations in San Joaquin County, one of the nation’s main farm and dairy counties.
2 dams illustrate challenge of maintaining older designs
Twelve years ago, widespread destruction from Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast helped… . FILE – In this Feb. 6, 2015 file photo, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, right, talks with David Thomas, director of the Joint Federal Programs for the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, Sacramento District, aft… .
Sierra Nevada snowfall is at the heaviest in 22 years
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Asian shares mixed after Trump offers scant policy details
Authorities urged thousands of people in Northern California to evacuate homes as rivers swollen by four days of heavy rain threatened to crest above flood level, even as another day of showers was forecast for… Rescue workers used boats and firetrucks to evacuate dozens of Northern California residents from their flooded homes Wednesday as a drought-busting series of storms began to move out of the region after days of heavy rain… Lawyers for Texas death row inmate Christopher Wilkins looked to the U.S. Supreme Court to keep him from becoming the first prisoner executed in the nation this year. Texas on Wednesday put to death an inmate convicted of killing two men over a phony drug deal, the first U.S. execution of 2017.
Asian shares mixed after Trump offers scant policy details
Authorities urged thousands of people in Northern California to evacuate homes as rivers swollen by four days of heavy rain threatened to crest above flood level, even as another day of showers was forecast for… Rescue workers used boats and firetrucks to evacuate dozens of Northern California residents from their flooded homes Wednesday as a drought-busting series of storms began to move out of the region after days of heavy rain… Lawyers for Texas death row inmate Christopher Wilkins looked to the U.S. Supreme Court to keep him from becoming the first prisoner executed in the nation this year. Texas on Wednesday put to death an inmate convicted of killing two men over a phony drug deal, the first U.S. execution of 2017.
‘Pressing concern’ to manage water in Middle East troublespot
There is a “pressing concern” to manage Euphrates River water, a key resource for a “politically volatile” area of the Middle East, US officials said, in a face of another sub-par rice crop in Iraq. Iraq, which until the mid-1970s relied on home-grown rice to cover most domestic demand, has seen buy-ins soar, becoming one of the top 10 biggest importers.
New Hampshire dairy farmers struggling to survive
Dairy farms in the state had been declining slowly, from 130 in 2010 to 121 in 2015. But this year saw 19 more farms drop out of the dairy business, although they may remain in agriculture.
Obama signs bill for Flint water, California drought
President Barack Obama signed a bill Friday authorizing water projects across the country, including $170 million to address lead in the drinking water in Flint, Michigan, and $558 million to provide relief to drought-stricken California. Obama said the bill advances vital projects across the country to restore watersheds, improve flood control and rebuild water infrastructure – including pipes in Flint, where residents have struggled with lead-tainted water for more than two years.