Can California handle more water after 12 atmospheric rivers?

[@ABC10]

Does California need to rethink how it stores water? Is there a better way?

[@erice5150]

I don't know so much about storing water, but I personally think lawns have to go. I realize residential use is a small part of the pie, but it just doesn't make sense to have lawns in some areas. I think easing the way for drought-tolerant landscaping would be a good mentality shift. That didn't answer your question, but it was gnawing at me. Ease environmental regulations and build more storage. We can gradually reincorporate those regulations if we need, but it should be system reset to a degree so people can build.

[@tjs114]

Using berms and swales in the mountains will slow the water movement down and hopefully get some to soak in. How many hundreds of abandoned mines are in the Mother Lode that could be used for water storage? And perhaps most important, stop allowing residential construction and trailer parks to be with the initial flood plains of every river. The flood plains serve a purpose and look at all of the wasted money spent in protecting or rebuilding in those areas that are always going to flood.

[@saan8]

im also wondering if all the excess water is filling up all the aquifers

[@hom2fu]

stop bullet train and built more man made reservoir. BUT built more reservoir they might ask for more property tax. BUT too much politics in the way

[@johnbrattan9341]

What you mean by "rethink," ABC10? And then with such nebulousness ask "Is there a better way?" Are you guys out of of your gourd? We were in a 17 (SEVENTEEN} year drought! We get 1 (ONE) year of wet weather....and you suddenly feel propelled to ASK such lunacy. Get a grip ABC10!

[@albeerobert]

I would rather have too much rain and snow then to ever have a wildfire again.

[@alexleer8688]

Stop being hypocrites.

[@eleventy-seven]

@@alexleer8688 Stopped being a POS.

[@npaujbais]

Prayers to all those victims of floods.

[@albeerobert]

The problem is that rivers, streams, and lakes are not given any space to flood.

[@florac7321]

Praise Father God for all of the much needed rain. Thank you 🙏

[@HeyUncleA]

Humans know how to make it rain too. Just saying

[@Fordgroup00]

Those being flooded out aren’t praising god 🤦‍♂️

[@williamkreth]

​@@HeyUncleA not really. They can influence it. But by no means can they just create rain. Conditions have to be right

[@joevarga5982]

God is fictional.

[@robertzalaker4775]

when i lived in the desert in az. i would get flooded often.i had 3.5 acres that was flat the water would run off the desert and would not soak in. so i got a post hole drill for my tractor and drilled 125 holes 8 inch diamiter and 4 ft. deep all over the property. then filled them with pea gravel,sand mix.the next time the deasert flowed it steyed for an hour and i could see it going down the holes.

[@Jefuslives]

Monica definitely the most comprehensive weather reports. Wish we had one of her here in SoCal! @ABC7

[@bradsillasen1972]

Outstandingly informative breakdown! Great job!

[@Anyone553]

Correction. Can California handle more water , TORNADOES, plus the earthquakes?

[@aaizner847]

It can.

[@dawncolayco9340]

Can you believe it. Never thought I would hear this weather. Left Portland rain to come here for sun well that was 5 years ago. Now California knows weather . Yay the water is refilling and air is clean refreshing.

[@shashankjp88]

Very comprehensive; great job! Wondering how the snow melt will impact Trinity Reservoir. What's the snowpack position of peaks that feed into Trinity

[@scomo532]

Can California handle more rain? You have no choice, cause it’s coming

[@ASE_Avenue]

Someone with common sense.

[@Paiadakine]

Yes they can. Fill up the historic Lake Tulare and it’s flood basin. Calif had the largest lake west of the Mississippi until they pumped it dry for agriculture. What’s shame. No wonder the aquifer is not filling up. At one time there was a big lake there.

[@NoName-zn1sb]

its flood

[@lionessprowess3581]

That's a shame but I like having local produce though...

[@chickendinner5572]

@@lionessprowess3581 it’s not like the produce are any cheaper if it’s produced locally. It’s still expensive.

[@phlodel]

Lake Tulare forms because there's a layer of nearly impenetrable clay called the Corcoran Clay layer. The water stands and doesn't percolate into the aquifers very quickly.

[@Paiadakine]

@@phlodel thanks

[@KevinClark-f4l]

excellent job explaining current conditions

[@SIXTWELVETAY]

Just thank God he brought us back and some …. Going to have a great summer !!! With beautiful Green flourishing scenic views . ! Can’t wait to cycle this summer !!

[@ardalla535]

Why would god bring rain to CA when he kills thousands of children every day?

[@Juanesai0210]

Monica Woods back at it again with clear, concise, & informative data analysis. Phenomenal reporting Thank you so much for all your work!

[@simonandlola7713]

Your weather forecast/summary is second to none! Bravo!

[@Kayenta66]

Great breakdown. Love the content, keep it coming for us weather nerds please 😁

[@freeheeler09]

Water storage in the Central Valley really needs to focus on aquifers and restoring floodplains and historic lakes in the Central Valley.

[@bitkrusher5948]

Solid base in the Seirras ....hope you valleys got some waiters for the melt off ..still building...June gonna be wild!

[@JoeZyzyx]

I wonder if the Salton Sea has been getting any new water helping it?

[@jonmacdonald5345]

Hopefully the rain is flushing away all of the meth smoking Turds in that area!

[@mochiebellina8190]

no

[@djack915]

I wondered that too 🤔

[@mikerilling6515]

Media in January: 😂 “ can California handle more drought ? “ 😂 Media in March : 😂 “ can California handle more water? “ 😂

[@haven_lady675]

We need it to last through the summer.

[@RA-fotog23]

Fantastic presentation! Thank you💜

[@lukeskywalker2116]

Tell me when lake mead is full

[@koogle612]

Heres a question do all of the drilled wells that have had to drill deeper & deeper to reach the water table benefit from this yrs rainfall?

[@TheRealoldcar]

Excellent presentation

[@B.Wildered]

Nicely done; this presentation not only serves to inform but also builds science literacy.

[@scottc3165]

Excellent report. Good news.

[@Slonge92]

Yes

[@seekingthetruth304]

That was a Great summary !👍👍

[@Bdub1952]

Welcome back, Tulare Lake.

[@kingchapo5595]

Great report

[@angelsdevils2956]

California Strong 💪 we are all lieutenant Dan out here !!

[@happydayz7857]

If we stop building, and insuring, homes in literal lake beds and watersheds. Farms are all that belong in watersheds. No one belongs in a lake bed.

[@johnmorgan7947]

Happy dayz".. best comment!

[@simonandlola7713]

I live in Palm Springs and we got 1” from the last storm so we should be at normal.

[@Se.quence]

Brilliant presentation. Well done

[@magnus9165]

Bad news given by my favorite weather lady. Thanks Monica, real class and professionalism.

[@zoopa999]

Great coverage!!!

[@yoiashi]

We need MORE water. We are still in severe drought

[@aaizner847]

Source?

[@yoiashi]

@@aaizner847 our bi-monthly water bill is still over 800$ !!!!!!!!!

[@aaizner847]

@@yoiashi That's not proof of California being in a severe drought.

[@beths999]

They already announced that California was no longer in a drought

[@aaizner847]

@@beths999 but her bill... :P

[@weworks7811]

An earthquake after the rain stops you watch

[@eleventy-seven]

Since 1500 earthquakes at 5+ magnitude occur worldwide each day, you may be right. Thanks for thoughtfully educating Californians on earthquakes.

[@lexuannhi]

thank you for the presentation. Can you venture out of California a little to lake Mead? I just wonder how the rain this year would have any effect on lake Mead? Thank you.

[@idellbrown1825]

It's double edged. Great rain, unfortunately with rain comes plant growth which means more to catch fire when it gets hot. Blessing and curse at the same time.

[@michaelguerrero3684]

13th atmospheric river next week probably.

[@Spagine]

Lucky number 13

[@junk3119]

Great report! but for such a long segment (loved it, btw).. it's lacking one very critical piece... needed to discuss the GROUNDWATER status.

[@krisflood5734]

I’m pretty sure Central Valley can handle 50 feet of water just like it did 200 years ago. Fill ‘er up.

[@lseger62]

I heard that additional construction of reservoirs was not considered.

[@MarcusRefusius]

Voters in California have okayed 2.7 BILLION Dollars for water Infrastructure. That was 2017 And here we are. Nothing has been done. Temperance Flat should have been built 40 years ago. The State water Project began in what 1959? STILL incomplete. Much like the %^&$ing Train.

[@happydayz7857]

Well…. You gotta spend years in court with the EPA and waste a lot of that money to get anything of worth DONE in this state.

[@Sir.VicsMasher]

Well the Oroville spilway cost $1B to replace when it failed 5 years ago.

[@eleventy-seven]

@@Sir.VicsMasher It was repaired three years ago.

[@rngnv4551]

Part of me wants to say, "pay the farmers to flood their fields and keep them flooded to recharge the Aquifers" but then the entire World's Reliance on California's Agriculture would be in jeopardy as other nations look to fill the void of necessity as well as it means more Aquifer pollutants such as Nitrates getting into the drinking water wells of residents and the Farmer's fueling the need for filtration systems as soon as 3 years down the road. We really shot ourselves in the 'foot' as a Species with this one. Build more Dams? Ugh...yeah increase the number of water projects for Water Sustainability, I guess. It's probably our only way to ensure that Farmers and Residents both keep the Tap running while sacrificing some Biomes.

[@HeyUncleA]

More dams? We’ve already killed the salmon, a multi billion dollar industry that could have sustained itself for millions more years if we didn’t build the dams.

[@Lindleyferchel]

Major flooding in the Kern river watershed

[@finstor3386]

The truth is when your use to this type of snow its no big deal. Utah's Cottonwood Canyons are one of the snowiest places in the world, with Alta averaging 551 inches of snow annually. Alta/Snowbird are 2 of the greatest skiing areas on earth and they get this much snow every year. I lived in Park City for a decade and had a winter like this, maybe not quite as much but a never ending snow storm and it never even shut down business. Utah removes snow like no other place on earth. I went to College in Ogden and never had a day school cancelled do to snow, and there were days people had to shovel their roofs, but the highways were clean.

[@rayspencer8872]

Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow. I love Climate Change. Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall. Proven in History.

[@dorothylasken5460]

I don't know if the land can take any more water but I don't think the people can handle anymore. It's driving us crazy.

[@alwaysyouramanda]

Better question, will this fix the rent to pay ratios?

[@slash2487]

Sure can. Bring it on. 😂

[@Cmorrison626]

Trinity and Shasta Lakes are right next to each other. Why is there such a drastic difference between their water levels?

[@NickyMitchell85]

How is the Calif. drought now? Is it almost 😅 over?

[@edthecatman6554]

😅😅😅 drought! Heat waves! At least you got some water

[@mihaiemilpuiu5728]

Sunshine❤❤❤

[@ilovenoobs1]

A few years ago California was complaining no water.

[@kds365]

Everyone was afraid of rising sea levels.

[@joevarga5982]

Only Democrats were afraid.

[@ubroberts5541]

That’s why Cali needs to do its job of trapping more water for interior use.

[@Strikeshotz]

Yes we need more more more

[@frosty5100]

12 wow

[@nenettesilver]

Now they have to think of how to save all that water.

[@johnratliff4594]

What do you mean, can they handle more water? They keep saying California cannot recover from the drought in one wet season, it will take many wet seasons of above average rain to recover.

[@MarioMartinez-zk2wk]

It's san Luis not Louis 😅

[@bettyboop3206]

The central San Joaquin Valley wants to be a lake again...😳

[@williammurray1341]

Hard to believe that just a year ago climate experts were saying that it would be years before California reservoirs would be near normal.

[@maestoso47]

Because that’s what climate change means. Extreme events that are not consistent with usual patterns.

[@brendonmasters]

CA legislature is going to raise water rates and blame it on the abundance lol.

[@fleecejohnson6969]

😂😂 so true

[@dtsh4451]

Don’t give them ideas🤨

[@jrtstrategicapital560]

We should be drilling holes into the acquirers to recharge them….just a thought .

[@eleventy-seven]

Sadly many of our central valley farmers have overstressed the aquifer causing ground sinkage that permanently reduces the capacity of the aquafer. It will take tens of thousands of years (maybe more) to reform.

[@yeahman1756]

California needs more water! and make more reservoirs to retain all these fresh rain water. It needs to replenish it's aquifers! what we are seeing is the Top layer of water. These water needs to go underground..

[@happydayz7857]

It needs watersheds to replenish the ground water. Not more PEOPLE. Not more farms.

[@unchboy]

I'm pretty sure the water rate hike is still coming.

[@joevarga5982]

Thank a Democrat.

[@stevenbrown5210]

Yeah I'm not buying 20" of rain, it's at least 5'. Every week I'm collecting a foot of rain

[@shocfacter]

Its really a shame that California hasnt built more reservoirs to store all of this water. AAAALLLL of that water we're just letting run off back out to sea and come next summer, maybe not THIS summer coming up, but the summer after that, we're going to be crying DROUGHT again, smh.

[@anders2258]

well done

[@majorpayne8373]

We really do need the rain...

[@alexleer8688]

You people are such hypocrites first complain about the drought and now to much rain, grow up.

[@cehii9514]

Let Tulare Lake Grow Stop fighting nature for only a few to profit Work with nature for everyone to benefit

[@RobustArid379]

the answer is "YES!" sure why not. we live in the ocean but on land.

[@theeraphatsunthornwit6266]

Traditionally called cloud😂

[@waytospergtherebro]

Fresno's a toilet anyway.

[@dplorbl]

Correction: Sacramento is the toilet; Fresno is a septic tank

[@rotano]

even Nature is being ironic with us

[@periux100]

Nice 😊

[@kaseyprice804]

Answer: No. No we cannot

[@mojavemike6522]

The real question, can California handle Newsom any more?

[@lolpaladins]

Maybe you shouldn't have destroyed so many dams... You know, the things built 100+ years ago to prevent flooding?

[@barrysoetoro8452]

Historic snow fall... flooding ? Expect it !

[@mrg7407]

The Real Question is this being done by Weather Manipulation from China Russia or even The USA ?

[@d.fpdxhxc]

The calculations seem to be very exact....hmmmm, perhaps a little too exact for comfort and they almost seem to be getting a laugh while reporting on it😱😱😱😱

[@mdb1239]

Years of drought and super wildfires and now mudslides and floods .... Hmmm?

[@smollsquishytaeil]

tornadoes don't forget

[@nobilismaximus]

Never bloody happy are you….

[@jayesouthworth]

Lake Oroville is not federally run, it's ran by the State of CA. Shasta however is federally rran by the Army Corp of Engineers.

[@831Links]

They still say drought.. it’s drought rain and drought rain is dry rain.. keep water rates high and tax tax tax

[@MemberOfLight]

Snowiest?

[@rayray9571]

Of course we can we just dump it in the ocean? The governor hates water

[@angeleyesjr9676]

I hope it rains till Summer ends Baby!😂

[@seancowhie6951]

They don't even know how to store it

[@DSC800]

"Atmospheric River" SERIOUSLY. I'm no meteorologist but I've been around for a few decades and this weather as simply called "HEAVY RAIN". Seems a new way for the climate fearmongers to put a new scarey name on the weather we get every year (just a little more of it this year).

[@wayneessar7489]

Closer to the turn of the century it was called the Pineapple Express because the trains of systems came from the direction of Hawaii. Before then, in the 1970's and before it was called the Japanese current, that current still exists as the garbage from the Fukashima melt down made it to our shores. I don't know why the names have changed over time.

[@joeybiden9280]

HAARP?

[@Juanesai0210]

Atmospheric river is a term probably MUCH older than you are lol you can take media recently running w it I suppose and using it for greater traction in recent times for its rise in popularity

[@Fordgroup00]

As long as people quit intentionally breaking the levees 😡

[@flynnstone3580]

Wow! All this rain isn't good for Cal Fire the state's biggest employer having billions in equipment just setting idle. But there's going to be ten times more dry grass this fall that will be left standing for some excuse.

[@davidpoole409]

I’m convinced Californians just catastrophies everything😂

[@loualiberti4781]

But I thought due to climate change California was suffering the worst drought in history. A path that would continue to worsen the next 12 years until we were all dead from climate change. What … I gave up my car, my generator, my lights and even my stove to save the World.

[@mikenewmanhayes2010]

There is not water in Tulare lake, buna vista lake or lake Kern