[Tanada]

Montequest, a year or so ago you reported that the resevoir levels were critically low in your area, can you give us a status update?

[MonteQuest]

Very little gain from the spring runoff.

For July 30th, 2006

Snowpack is 10500% of avg

TotalPrecip is 92.3% of avg

Water Summary
Last Reading: 3607.72 on Jul 26, 2006

Powell was last within 2" of this elevation on Jul 25, 2006

But this chart tells it all. Full pool is 3700'

Lake Powell Daily Water Levels

All time Water Levels

Lake Powell is 92.28 feet below Full Pool (Elevation 3,700)

By content, Lake Powell is 51.4% of Full Pool (24,322,000 af)

Total inflows for water year 2006: 7,628,725 acre feet

This is 78.26% of the July 26th average of 9,747,863 acre feet

Inflows for WY 2006 are 74.15% of WY 2005

[Magus]

Here in Missouri, the river (the Missouri River... ) has been looking low for a few years now. I believe it is mostly due to all the droughts that have been occuring furthur up river, in the west. Right now, there is an especially nasty one occurring in the Dakotas. Oklahoma is still not doing to well either...ah.

U.S. Drought Monitor

[peeker01]

Forecasts indicate that LP will be full or close to it by end of summer. Only 46 feet to go.

http://lakepowell.water-data.com/

[dolanbaker]

Isn't that what it's supposed to do?

[Serial_Worrier]

Point is doomers were predicting these large lakes were on the verge of drying up and apocalypse would ensue..

[Serial_Worrier]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'N')ow the morons can go back to being idiots again.

[PrestonSturges]

It was a looming apocalyptic situation, but record snowfall solved the problems.

It's like 3 years ago Atlanta was within a couple weeks of being evacuated indefinitely, then the drought suddenly ended.

Now there's some worry about the huge earthen dams up on Missouri river that are all filled to capacity - the floodgates are being used for the first time in decades, and one failure could set off a chain reaction of dam failures.

Looking at Katrina, Deepwater Horizon, and Fukashima, maybe it's best not to scoff too loudly.

[peeker01]

a student of weather will come to the conclusion that it is cyclic, not apocalyptic.

[PrestonSturges]

For the various civilzations that have been wiped out by drought in that area, it probably felt apocalyptic. The whole famine-warfare-cannibalism thing was more than "weather" from their vantage point.

[Lore]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('peeker01', 'a') student of weather will come to the conclusion that it is cyclic, not apocalyptic.

[Keith_McClary]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('peeker01', 'a') student of weather will come to the conclusion that it is cyclic, not apocalyptic.

[Novus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', 'I')t was a looming apocalyptic situation, but record snowfall solved the problems. ...
It's like 3 years ago Atlanta was within a couple weeks of being evacuated indefinitely, then the drought suddenly ended.

[Loki]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('peeker01', 'a') student of weather will come to the conclusion that it is cyclic, not apocalyptic.

[timmac]

Lake Mead is to rise a little this year as well, looks as if happy times are back..

[Fishman]

"A strict student of weather will never understand that it's a fundamental change in climate."
But a person questioning the global warming faith would ask, "didn't they say this was not supposed to happen?"

"Colorado River Compact was based on is not representative of the average historical climate,
(but it's full again)
and it certainly won't be representative of the future climate (but its full again)."

[peeker01]

just shoot me