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Liveblogging the Deluge: "Dry" Creek Takes Center Stage Today
Dry Creek in December of 2016 before the current storms What happens when a small insubstantial creek that is dry for much of the year......gets hit with a flash flood amounting to 6,100 cubic feet per...
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Liveblogging the Deluge: Following Up on the Dry Creek Flood
Dry Creek in Modesto flooded to the greatest extent in two decades yesterday, with peak flows exceeding 6,000 cubic feet per second. I was out documenting the flood surge, and I managed to get to the...
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Liveblogging the Deluge: I've Never Seen Anything Quite This...La Grange Dam
Sometimes you just have to say "what the heck?" (or some other expletive). Some things just grab your attention that way. This was my day to say that. I was privileged to see a rare sight.I was given...
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Liveblogging the Deluge: Wrapping Things Up (for now)
A week ago, I looked eastward from my science lab and saw the sun setting on the Sierra Nevada crest from 80 or 90 miles away. It was quite literally moments before the first outliers of the storm...
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Liveblogging the Deluge: Atmospheric River Storm Version 2.0
Intellicast radar image of January 18, 2017.What a strange January it has been. We were hit by the strongest storms in two decades, and there was a spate of flooding and high river flows across much of...
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An Important Read for Californians, from The Center for Investigative Reporting
I'm kind of dropping everything and asking you to read the following article by Nathan Halverson from Reveal: Center for Investigative Reporting (and reposted in the High Country Times) entitled "All...
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Liveblogging the Deluge: The Post Mortem...Storms That Made a Difference
Don Pedro Reservoir on January 5 before the storms, elevation about 786 feet (76% of capacity).The atmospheric river storms of January have finally subsided, and we are looking at kind of a new...
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Is Trumpism/Pencism the New Lysenkoism? The Need to Defend Science From...
Drought-killed trees in Yosemite Valley, CaliforniaImagine what it must have been like living under communist rule in the Soviet Union during Joseph Stalin's regime. I can't even begin to imagine the...
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What's the Most Incredible Thing You've Experienced? Memories of Baja in 1991...
Totality of the solar eclipse of 1991 from San Jose del Cabo. The corona, an aura of plasma and gases, is only visible during totality. Photo by Dr. William Luebke.What's the most incredible thing you...
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February Fights For Flooding Fame: New Atmospheric River Storm Approaching
From https://twitter.com/Weather_West/status/828096290097475584I'm getting a funny sense of deja vu, like we've been here before. It's the fourth day of the month, and we are looking down the maw of a...
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Liveblogging the Deluge: What Changes are Coming to the Tuolumne River?
Knowing that another storm is headed in this week, I took advantage of the nice day and took a stroll along the swollen Tuolumne River. It was an amazing sight, and has been for a month now as the...
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Lady Gaga, Woody Guthrie, and the Times We're Living In
Lady Gaga has never been mentioned in my blog before, but she earned my deepest respect yesterday when she included the Woody Guthrie song "This Land is Your Land" to open the Super Bowl half-time...
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Pseudoscience, Scientific Illiteracy and the Greatest Human Journey. What to do?
How many people do you know? How many of them are scientists?Wait a minute...how did THAT happen??Many people do not know scientific researchers in their everyday lives, and that is a situation that...
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Half Dome Makes a Surprise Appearance on the Floor of the Great Valley Today
It doesn't happen for me all that often, maybe because of air pollution, or the fact that I characteristically drive past the spot only once a week, but I can occasionally spot Half Dome in Yosemite...
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Liveblogging the Deluge: The Concerns (Panic?) at Oroville Dam, a Story We've...
The graphic above (from the Los Angeles Times, Google Earth, and the California Dept. of Water Resources) succinctly explains the serious problem unfolding right now at Oroville Dam on the Feather...
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Liveblogging the Deluge: Meanwhile, Back at the Local Dam...Don Pedro...
With all the attention being directed at Oroville Dam today with the broken spillway, it's a bit too easy to forget that similar conditions are being experienced all across Northern California. Several...
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Liveblogging the Deluge: Reflections on the Events at Oroville Dam. What Will...
This picture is on the San Joaquin River, not the Feather. It's a metaphor for floods all around.Let me be absolutely clear: this is a serious situation. Nearly two hundred thousand people have been...
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Liveblogging the Deluge: A Tuolumne River Update, and Scenes on the San Joaquin
The travails at Oroville Dam are appropriately dominating the news this week as nearly two hundred thousand people remain isolated from their homes as the operators work to temporarily shore up the...
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Liveblogging the Deluge: San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge - What a...
The San Joaquin River at the National Wildlife Refuge in November 2017Just a few months ago, the San Joaquin River, and its major tributary the Tuolumne River, were in big trouble. The worst drought in...
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Liveblogging the Deluge: Big Changes on the Tuolumne River
Source: http://www.capradio.org/articles/2017/02/20/don-pedro-reservoir-spillway-opens-for-first-time-since-97/I've been away for the last five days, experiencing California's storms from an entirely...
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