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Despite historical rains these reservoirs are still not back to their historical average levels. I'm guessing they will continue to rise as water flows down hill following the storms, but it is hard to get a sense of what is going on because the first derivative is not displayed.


It's all about the snowpack, and this makes me happy: https://cdec.water.ca.gov/snowapp/sweq.action


This visualization shows historical snow accumulation each month https://engaging-data.com/california-snowpack-levels/


Almost to 100%, so that's nice.

We've had several years where we had a very wet month then literally nothing after.

And hopefully we don't get any abnormally warm storms that melts some of that.


The same site's precipitation graph suggests that despite some recent precipitation, it's still only above average, rather than 'historic' for the period since last October:

https://engaging-data.com/california-precipitation-levels/


reservoirs aren’t low because of rainfall, they are lower than historical average because we use way more water now




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