Thursday Top of the Scroll: California’s largest reservoir has risen 22 feet, as more rain drenches the state
After an unusually dry January where most of Northern California went without rain for 27 days in a row, the storms have come fast and furious, dramatically improving the state’s water-supply outlook. So much rain fell in the first week of February that California’s largest reservoir, Shasta Lake, near Redding, rose 22 feet. Shasta Lake is 34 miles long. The watershed at the state’s second-largest, Lake Oroville, in Butte County, has received 24 inches of rain in the past two weeks — five times the historical average — sending the reservoir level up 23 feet from Feb. 1 to Feb. 7. And now a new atmospheric river storm is forecast to soak the Bay Area and the rest of the state Thursday and Friday.
Other weather and water supply news:
- The Sacramento Bee: Parts of Sacramento area under flood warning as river levels rise. How much rain will we get?
- SFGate: Bay Area wakes to rare snowfall as a surging atmospheric river moves in
- California WaterBlog: How’s California’s water year developing?
- ABC10 News (San Diego, Calif.): City says rain is good news for San Diego’s water supply
- New York Times: A major storm is about to soak California
- Record Searchlight (Redding, Calif.): Redding could wake up to snow on Thursday. Here’s how much atmospheric river could drop
- Shasta Scout (Redding, Calif.): Damage from winter rains estimated at $6 million so far, Shasta County sheriff says
