Over the weekend, Southern California got something they’ve not seen in decades. San Diego issued it’s first ever blizzard waring. Yes, Snow you can shovel.
Residents across the Southland woke up to an icy wonderland Sunday morning, the result of an frigid winter storm that broke rainfall records and scattered fresh powder at elevations as low as 1,000 feet across the normally warm, sun-drenched region. Mountain communities were slammed by intense snowfall, with Mountain High ski resort clocking an impressive 93 inches of snow. ..
The storm, which originated in the Gulf of Alaska, tapped into an atmospheric river system — a powerful plume of moisture that can deliver large amounts of precipitation. Sunday marked a short reprieve from the wet weather, with another series of storms set to hit during the week.
More rain and snow are on the way, which is good news for the state, but it could be better. It is so mismanaged that most of it will run off into the ocean instead of being secured for future use when the climate shifts. Famous for drought reporting and water rationing, the state’s perennial Democrat rulers waste billions on the wrong sorts of environmental interventions. Preferring virtue signaling and money laundering to long-term benefit or value.
Forest management is historically lousy and the cause of wildfires that often result in millions in property damage and loss of life. And they’d rather siphon off resources to force people into pricey EVs they can’t charge than develop affordable energy, build reservoirs, or desalination plants.
And they need them. For all the talk of drought, California has been in a wet cycle for over 500 years.
Statewide precip numbers since 1895 show a nearly flat trend to the hundred-year mean of 22 inches per year.
So, even in its wet cycle California is almost always at or near a state of drought which its massive population only makes worse. That much demand for water in a state that doesn’t get much of it when the climate is favorable (and mismanages that) is not a barometer for America or the world.
The place is dry most of the time, but not this year, and that’s a problem too. IThe CO2 drought model doesn’t stand up well to history of the current burst of precipitation, which, if you look at the last 120 years, isn’t odd or tied to CO2 either.
And yes! I went looking, and sure enough, Tony Heller was on top of the recent California weather and the history of media lies.
