Check out how what is normally a small stream that is not visible from this spot at all, is now just dry barren sand like Death Valley……..or something like that. The Google street view from that bridge looked like this in January of this year:
In just 2 months all the desert scrub has dried up and disintegrated into nothing but sand and dust. We are so doomed!!! The “existential threat” has been fully realized!!!
Back in reality, the SRP reservoir system above Phoenix is now at about 103%. The biggest part of that system is Theodore Roosevelt Lake, and it currently is at 104%. The value can go above 100% because they allow for a flood control reserve above normal full pool. What my video really shows is a massive release because there has been so much rain and snow that all the local lakes are full and the excess must be released.
Note that unlike California, even with the release the water will probably never just go to the ocean and be wasted. Much of it will seep into the ground to replenish aquifers, and that is always the method in Arizona. Rainwater runoff is not just sent back into the ocean. The last I heard there were 4 to 5 years worth of water stored underground. This system filling event and the excess runoff is only going to help that. There is also a dam downstream that is almost always just dry ground. It’s full now.
Meanwhile the Upper Colorado River snowpack that feeds lakes Powell and Mead is well above average and higher than at any point in the past 10 years. I would like to see it get to 300% of average to allow for a major refilling of those lakes, but that might be expecting a bit much. The picture below has a link to the site so you can check it at any time.
This site has more data including a link to the graph above via drop down menus. The four blue menu items with little arrows have drop downs. The ‘Water Databases’ drop down (shown below) has links to the other major lakes in the system including Lake Mead.
Yes the lakes are way down now due to many fairly dry years in a row, but it would be nice to see the more of the mega high precipitation that has drenched California and Arizona make its way into the upper Colorado River watershed. Of course even if those lakes were to fill back up completely, it would not disprove global warming according to the scammer tyrants.
Nothing disproves catastrophic “existential threat” global warming, which is one of the big ways you know it’s a lie.
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