Antarctic melting

Lake level reduced to below spillways. They are releasing superfast through main spillway with is where the initial erosion happened. Now both are seriously eroded. New arriving rain is ~ unpredictable which is (?) why evacuation order has not been lifted.

Apparently fuel availability was (is) a big issue for car-evacuations. Should we not all drive around with nearly-empty tanks Is that not a good thing?

 

Much new rainfall in Calif. I don't know if part of heavy Sierra snowpack could 'melt out', data not obviously available, but that would intensify things. That would be unusual for February.

Very useful 'cdec' hydrology website seems blocked for me here now. Very odd. but y'all can see better what is going on there. Anyway, in most aspects we can close out this Calif. Megadrought. Just need surface structures to deal with high water fluxes.

One exception is groundwater which has been much depleted and does not refill over short times. Another related is 2017 fire season. You can bet that this rain will grow a lot of 'surface fuel'. Unless the dry part of 2017 is unusually cool, it will get pretty burny.