California Drought

[troutsqueezer]

Mark Finan, the local, trusted, good guy weather guy, just stated today that he is predicting the second half of the rainy season to be normal. I give it a fifty-fifty chance as I do anyone's forecast.

 

[cqaigy2]

Hopefully the Pineapple Express will swing into Cali before coming up here. You guys need a break!

 

[Pilot]

The drought extends up into Oregon as well.

We had 3 fires yesterday in western Oregon--two near the coast near Cannon Beach which gets about 76 inches of rain per year and the other one near Silverton, which gets maybe 40 inches. Nothing like California, but unusually dry here--and we have had a lot of east wind, which are comparable to California's Santa Ana winds. All of southwest Oregon is in a fire watch condition and they usually get about 30-40 inches of rain.

When I lived in California around 1960 there was an extended drought and officials banned recreational activities outside designated sites until well into February when we had several days of rain.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

If longer range models are correct the Pacific is about to open her water to you folks in California probably in Feb or March so not much longer. I believe it is called the Pineapple Express

We all hope. Here in Oregon we are 20" below normal rainfall. It's a bright and sunny day right now. We badly need a couple good frog stranglers. Of course, tropical moisture doesn't do squat for the snow pack in the mountains, which is what keeps the rivers running in the summer.

 

[RobertN]

Pineapple express brings rain usually. We need rain low, snow high.

 

[RobertN]

Off Topic, but...

Is that steakhouse at H49 and Salmon Falls road any good?

We have been to Cafe Mahjaic in Lotus a couple times recently; that place was excellent! I had passed it going to Station-74, or Station 72 in Cool, and just generally for a number of years now. Finally tried it; wish would have tried it sooner.

Mark Finan, the local, trusted, good guy weather guy, just stated today that he is predicting the second half of the rainy season to be normal. I give it a fifty-fifty chance as I do anyone's forecast.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

Off Topic, but...

Is that steakhouse at H49 and Salmon Falls road any good?

We have been to Cafe Mahjaic in Lotus a couple times recently; that place was excellent! I had passed it going to Station-74, or Station 72 in Cool, and just generally for a number of years now. Finally tried it; wish would have tried it sooner.

I'm sorry, but if I can be told where there is a good steakhouse, I don't care what the topic was, now it's steak. :drool:

 

[troutsqueezer]

Off Topic, but...

Is that steakhouse at H49 and Salmon Falls road any good?

We have been to Cafe Mahjaic in Lotus a couple times recently; that place was excellent! I had passed it going to Station-74, or Station 72 in Cool, and just generally for a number of years now. Finally tried it; wish would have tried it sooner.

We have been eating there for close to thirty years, the Hindquarter. It has gone through several owners and the quality has been up and down, mostly up. It's not cheap but what steakhouse is? Haven't been there in maybe two years. The bar is next to the restaurant so there's drinkin', cussin' and smokin' right close to your table. Down home kinda place. Try at your own risk. There must be a reason it has been in business so long in a town that has a population of -10.

 

[NoTrespassing]

You're joking right??? :confused3: It wouldn't have anything to do with the people that are in charge of most everything are the kind of people that think milk comes from the grocery store. In other words, our wonderful elected and appointed officials DO NOT HAVE A CLUE. But then they are elected, and we see what comes from those results everyday. :banghead:

Probably because over half the voters don't have a clue either, just like in Illinois.

Kevin

 

[TomSeller]

Weather... It ain't like it used to be.

 

[RobertN]

Lived here(grew up in Orangevale) my whole 50 years. Driven past a lot of time, but never stopped.

We have been eating there for close to thirty years, the Hindquarter. It has gone through several owners and the quality has been up and down, mostly up. It's not cheap but what steakhouse is? Haven't been there in maybe two years. The bar is next to the restaurant so there's drinkin', cussin' and smokin' right close to your table. Down home kinda place. Try at your own risk. There must be a reason it has been in business so long in a town that has a population of -10.

 

[Jelf]

Of course the drought results in high fire risk. The link below starts Gmap4 and displays a map showing the wild fire threat level for California. Red is "very high" and the darker color is "extreme". There is sure a lot of red! It might take a few seconds for all the data to appear on the map.

This map can also display current fires that are being tracked by the inter-agency GeoMAC team and some other GIS (Geographic Information System) data layers related to wild fires that you usually do not see all on the same map.

Each time you view the map you are seeing the latest data from the state and federal servers. To learn more about the map please visit the two links in the upper left corner of the map. The "About" link will show you how to turn the GIS overlays on/off, change the order in how the overlays stack on top of each other, make your own custom link for this map and more.

http://www.mappingsupport.com/p/gma...upport.com/p/fires/california_fire_threat.txt

Joseph, the Gmap4 guy
Redmond, WA

 

[Pilot]

Oregon had 12 fires going as of Friday night. Not huge like California fires so often are, but very unusual for January when you can expect rain almost every day. These fires are on the west, wet, heavily timbered side of the Cascade mountains. It is usually the east, desert side that burns. If they forecast a chance of rain, figure it will rain. If they forecast no rain, figure it probably will rain.

 

[downsizingnow48]

NASA image. California snow pack estimated at 4% - 22% of normal.

 

[troutsqueezer]

Some storms are moving this way, yay! Although the news people are always quick to remind us that just because there is rain coming, it doesn't mean we're out of the drought, like we're too stupid to know that.

 

[deezler]

At least they are getting some measurable rain/snow now. Not quite a sigh of relief yet, but, a lot less scary all of a sudden.

 

[deerseeker001]

I am happy that you have finally got some descent rain,hopefully more to come.

 

[charlz]

At least they are getting some measurable rain/snow now. Not quite a sigh of relief yet, but, a lot less scary all of a sudden.

I dunno, one article I saw had a quote that they needed it to rain every day for about 3 months before they would be out of drought status... a storm here or there isn't going to cut it.

 

[troutsqueezer]

I dunno, one article I saw had a quote that they needed it to rain every day for about 3 months before they would be out of drought status... a storm here or there isn't going to cut it.

It will help immensely with the nectar flow this year. I have some beehives and some amount of rain will be good. Filling the reservoirs is one thing and does take some time but if you are not depending on that then anything is much better than nothing.

 

[deerseeker001]

Some is better than nothing