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Originally Posted by redpoint5
I've always wondered why the Army Corps of Engineers spills most of the water held back by the dams on the North Santiam river the day after Labor day every year.
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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
The bad drought here which was at its worse from april 2013 to summer 2014 has been completely erased. All the lakes I am aware of are not just full they are at their max.
So much for man made up globull warming making everything dryer.
Last September nature showed it true randomness and made up for the 3 years of very low rain fall in about 3 weeks, then from may 3rd to may 6 this year we got almost another years worth of rain in 3 nights.
If this is climate change, I say bring it.
California will get theirs too. Right now everything is dry......
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redpoint.......oil pan answers your question. Similar to some of our dams, your dams hold water back to get us through the dry months of late June, July, August & early September. Now if the dry months aren't particularly dry & the dams are pretty full, some water has to be dumped, with an idea that anticipated early fall rains might be able to fill reservoirs quicker than emergency dumping can lower nearly full waters. The problem is AGW(increasing energy in the bio-sphere; not necessarily drier climate in all areas, at all times) is causing our dry periods to be longer & start of rainy periods less predictable. Along the North American west coast, it does appear that the extra energy AGW is driving the undulating whipping pineapple express jet stream further north, hopefully NOT for a increasing periods of time, as it has been for the last 20 or 30 years.
But, it does appear glacier, Greenland & Antarctic land ice decreases ARE in a continuum of loss. Considering the sun has been in a TSI low level(& more accurately the SSI) for 9(+?) years (including a TSI 100 year record low for 3+ years), little science information can show soon coming ice increases. But a return of the sun to normal radiation levels would send ice losses to greater disappearances.