just try to be ready for the flooding and the landslides...

the Sierra snow pack along with filling the reservoirs to really get back to some kind of normal. Let's hope we don't have an awful fire season first because a wet rainy season will be devastating.

There is now an ongoing El Niño that was declared to have started late last year. However, for the most part it did nothing it should have for the West Coast.

Hopefully it will be different in the fall.

this forecast doesn't make people think it's okay to go back to wasteful habits.

of a wet season, but not by as much as is popularly believed. What we need is a strong ENSO, and a couple of good big plumes of moisture coming through the state during the winter...

I will wait to see if this actually happens. Boy do we need significant rain.

And then I just saw that they want to drain the Silver Lake reservoir?

It better be a darned good reason...and they need to find a way drain that water to someplace it's needed.

The Silver Lake Reservoir is about to go dry.

The reservoir will be temporarily drained this summer as part of a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power project to build a new water pipeline beneath it.

After more than a century of service, the Silver Lake Reservoir — the scenic centerpiece of the hilly neighborhood — was disconnected in December 2013 from the city's drinking-water system as part of a federal mandate to phase out open-air drinking-water reservoirs.

of water storage to fill from my roof. Just installed.