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"Cruelest Winter Ever" As California's Snowpack Drops To Record Low
"This has been what I'm now calling the 'cruelest' winter I've ever seen," exclaims the CEO of one California ski resort... and he is right. According to official records, California's snowpack is the lowest on record for this time of year at around a mere 20% of the average since records began.
And while all eyes are focused on dry river beds and fields of dust, the maountainous ski resort areas are seing their economies devastated. As Bloomberg reports,
Last year Vail reported a 28 percent drop in skier visits at its California resorts, and the company warned investors that its financial results would be worse than anticipated.
Those numbers reflect what could be a larger contraction of Tahoe’s ski industry. Seasonal and part-time hiring has slid 27 percent over the last three years, according Patrick Tierney, a professor of recreation, parks, and tourism at San Francisco State University, and spending on ski-related services has decreased from $717 million a year to $428 million. An older analysis by the San Francisco Reserve Bank showed that the value of resort-area homes in places like Tahoe can depend heavily on climate; even a 2-degree increase could cut home values by more than 50 percent.
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The drought is getting worse... not better.
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Same problem in the entire Pac NW: Oregon, Washington, BC.
Warmest winter on record. Summer will be a bitch: drought, wildfires.
Bullish!
Someone please explain this to Mr. Inhofe.
& here it is that all y'all thought CRUEL SUMMERS were bad...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ePIZugahFc
Meh ~ what else can you expect from a BANANARAMA REPUBLIC?
The peak temperature year for earth was 1998, with another warm year in 2012 (el nino). There has been no warming since 1998, indeed there has been a slight cooling trend. The volume of ice in antarctica this winter was higher than it has ever been, the arctic ice is 50% above its low in 2012.
The Great Lakes have been 88% covered in ice for two consecutive years for the first time in recorded history.
The ratio of high temperature broken records to low temperature broken records (which was favored high temperatures in the 20th century) is now favoring cold temperatures by a ratio of 2.5 to 1.
The warming of the 20th century was caused by earth-facing CME's (coronal mass ejections) which impact the earths ionosphere and add terrawatts of heat to the atmosphere and intensify storm formation at the impact sight (see U-yen systems).
The sun is entering a grand-minimum of its 11 and 84 year cycles respectively (means fewer CMES), and the next 40 years will be the coldest you have ever experienced.
see youtube.com/suspicious0bservers for more (go to the C(lie)mate playlist).
And as far as California is concerned, before the warming of the 20th century brought rains to california IT WAS MOSTLY A DESERT!
BLASPHEMY!! BLASPHEMY!!
IT'S ALL GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE DISRUPTION!! WWWWHHHHHAAAAAAAAA!!
STOP BREATHING AND STOP BREEDING TO SAVE THE PLANET!! WWHHHHHHAHHHHH!!!
AND ONLY DRINK BOTTLED WATER AND EAT TOFU!!! WHAAAAHHHHHH!!
AND DRIVE A PRIUS, LEAF, TESLA OR VOLT!! WHHHHHHAHHHHH!!
BUT WALK!!?? NOBODY WALKS IN LA!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OawzGzUrZmo
btw.. Isn't Missing Persons from Meffodd??
I've been skipping every other breath for 18 years now and it has worked wonderfully !!!
I still blame those fucking CLOVIS INDIAN tribes [for driving Escalades instead of Prius'] for the mess we apparently find ourselves in today...
It's totally clear to me that they didn't have enough GOVERNMENT PAYROLEES in place under their system...
~~~
Oh ~ & to MIFFED MICROBIOLOGY...
That comment was in ZERO WAY a jab at your decision to drive a PRIUS [only as a science experiment to see if people would react to your bumper stickers]...
Here in AK, there is ZERO snow, the ground is thawed and has been for most of the winter.
Warmest winter on record, only about 100 years but still unprecedented warmth.
Just wait until the slippery slope state gets the spring rains and mudslides.
FWIW, latest from the NWS re this year's El Nino. It's officially here, but next to meaningless in timing and magnitude.
http://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/enso/march-2015-enso-discussi...
We had back to back snow storms last week in Northern Texas. Global warming my ass.
We need to chemtrail.......but do it in reverse.
Hey, just like most of your posts...
LOL, too soon? Get used to that dry sound coming out of pipes, knukles, you retired west-coast fruitcake.
AWESOME!!
Just think how much evil carbon dioxide could be eliminated if the whole world stop breathing for an hour each day!
It would save The Planet and polar bears from GLOBAL WARMING!!
I'm going to start the STOP HARMFUL INHALATION TODAY (S.H.I.T) movement right here on ZH!
Just send your $100 or more donation to Headbanger's S.H.I.T to join the movement that will save the world from EXTINCTION!
This article did not say anything about global warming! It's about a drought out in western US which is real. Two different issues
No, they are not. California received more rainfall than it historically did in the 20th century because of the warming trend. As the earth cools again it will become drier.
But the media will still blame global warming.
80's throwback weekend here? First Bananarama, now Missing Persons?
but, but, that's climate disruption! We need a federal program to control the sun.
Here in Vancouver, 2nd rainiest city in the world, our local mountains ended ski season early due to lack of snow.
Uhh, pardon!! Lack of precipitation....in Vancouver!? What the fuck!! Yep, here we are in March, should be non-stop cats and dogs, but it ain't. Nope, onr sunny day after another. Not complaining cause if there's one place that could stand for less rain it's Vancouver.
But in my 4.5 decades living here, I've never seen this much sun as I have the past 6-9 months.
In a thousand years ALL this will not mean shit.
Seriously? " The Great Lakes have been 88% covered in ice for two consecutive years for the first time in recorded history"
This is a total lie.
not a lie, here is a chart of the lake ice coverage, which has reduced slightly in the past two weeks, mainly due to more open water on lake ontario.
Treid to inclued the GIF, but didnt take so here is the link:
http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/glcfs/glcfs.php?lake=l&ext=ice&type=N&hr=00
Listen up and listen good, Pilgrims.
Got family in the Ag biz. Here's the deal. It's rained so the grass and hills are green. Golf courses, of course, are watered. Nobody's taps been shut off.... in the large populaiotnn centers, ergo, "What Drought?"
Some farmers in the Central Valley are starting to "officially" get notice of their "water allocations". Some are but 10% of last year which is already down 50+% from just 10 years ago.
Lots of wells are dry. Meaning aquifers dropped. Costs Millions to drill deep wells/permitting, etc.
Here's the news. You heard it here, first.
Ain't nuff water to grow fuck all shit, this year.
CA is one of the largest AG producers in the world.
Stuffs not gonna be grown. Anything from grains to fruits to milk and cattle.
Prices gonna go up.
And is likely Way the F Too Late for any nuff rain, now.
Plus, even SF et al, who been getting their water out of the Sierras.... Uh huh. No snow, no water for SF, which BTW has not heard shit about the drought because guess who lives there?
Great to have contracts allocations and commitments if there's water.
If There's Water, is the operative phrase.
Nope. No Gots.
Sorry Charlie
California refugees, anyone?
Welcome to the Hotel California...
Now go home!
Oklahoma here we come
right back from where we started from !!!
-bugs bunny, 1964
Someone better warn Mr. Inhofe. Quick!
Here's the future of agriculture in the West. Almeria Spain. 100s of sq. miles of greenhouses. Distinctly visible from Space. https://goo.gl/maps/Rc3SU
El Ejido Almería, Spain 36.751358, -2.749799
great link... and it's already started in California. a short drive up PCH confirms that landowners have already started covering their crops. it was 85 degrees in SoCal today.
Just plow it up, build more condos and Mexico will pick up the slack or even healthier produce from Honduras and Guatemala.
Now hold on, there is still the old March Miracle that could happen. It'd need to be about 35 feet of rain in less than a month, but if the NWO lets a half black become POTUS, anything is possible, amirite?
Indeed, Ag in CA uses a vast majority of the water. Mostly exported as veggies, rice, beef, milk, nuts and wine. But yet the state still loves to badger us serfs about how much we use.
Thanks for telling us what we already know, you west-coast fruitcake.
WE GOTS NO WATER. Yeah, no shit grandpa.
LOL @ the $1.489/10 sign for gas.
Be sure to get someone from Boston to explain it to Mr. Inhofe.
Global Warming is a proven fraud and an obvious scam for money. Stop your ignorance.
Can't they just Ctrl-P more water?
Dang.. we could have spared you a couple feet of snow from Boston and not even noticed it missing.
This will not be good for California this summer... nor Nevada... the hoover dam might even stop working this summer due to levels of water too low in lake mead...
That would certainly fuck up the NSA data center, so we all hope you're right.
That would certainly fuck up the NSA data center...
Sadly, they'll divert water from population centers before they shut down the Eye of Sauron.
And why the fuck not? TV news will spin excuses and everyone will keep right on obeying.
You mean they might have to turn off some of those Las Vegas fountains? Or god forbid let those golf courses dry out?
In winter it's the ski resorts that suffer. This spring/summer, the rafting companies on the Truckee River will face extinction.
But it will have NO effect on bullsh*t BLS statistics.
Punishment for the Greed of Los Angeles Port workers
There may be intended sarcasm in your statement. But I've seen this sentiment directed at others before in all seriousness. Honestly, does it make sense that a supposed all powerful consciousness, capable of creating the universe we know and beyond what we know, would give a rat's ass about our miniscule ( in a universal scope ) earthly dilemmas? Is it reasonable to think, this god is out there doling out punishment based on some human's limited version of justice?
Oh ye of little faith REPENT!! REPENT!
FOR HE BOILED FOR YOUR SINS!!!
Repent else ye shall be banished from Eternal Pasta !
Whatttttttt No Pisgetti Ack.
I always said "if God doesn't destroy San Francisco, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology" ...
Wow somebody else gets it.
Nah man I am one of the most Atheist mofos on here. I got no problem with religion, until they start extorting people, murdering people, forcing their citizens to live a certain way, etc. Hey, you enjoy believing in this stuff? Great, but leave me the fuck out of it
So does that mean you're not joining Jihad?
Not unless Obomber tells me to
IOW you are against The State. Welcome to Galt's Gulch.
Like a cat might paw at a mouse before killing it.
Drought-stricken California, which just had its driest January ever recorded, smashed another dismal record last month: the hottest February.
Peter Gleick, a climate, water and sustainability scientist and member of the U.S. National Academy of Science, tweeted a graph from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Friday, pointing out the shocking data point. February's heat topped all previous Februaries since the agency began collecting weather information in 1895.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/06/california-drought-february-rec...
California farmers resign themselves to drought: 'Nobody's fault but God's'“This is an absolutely devastating shock,” said Ryan Jacobsen, executive director for the Fresno County farm bureau. “Unless things change dramatically in the next six weeks, we expect 2015 to be much worse than last year.”
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/07/california-drought-farmer...
Sorry, JO but your Peter Gleick is known to lie to further his cause...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/science/earth/activist-says-heartland-...
(not my down vote, btw)
Thanks. Live and learn.
Still blaming or praying to God. We may as well be blaming or praying to Zeus or maybe Thor. We have evovled so little in the last few thousand years
'Nobody's fault but God's'
I do not think God uses HAARP and chemtrails to manipulate weather.
God does not exist, so you're probably right.
Rot in hell, California.
Rot in communist hell, Commiefornia! Translation = rot in SoCal California, California.
Oh just fuckin rot all those flakes, fruits & nuts...
I don't care where.
Except HERE!
Meh California is just going back to it's natural state of being dry as fuck... the last 100 years were the wetter they have been in the last 2000 years or so... This was an anomaly...
Tired argument...anything original?
Beyond the weather, you fail to recognize the carnage being caused by rabid environmentalists...
"Californians lose 800,000 acre-feet of water to 305 minnows"
It would take about four average size minnow buckets to hold 305 3-inch Delta smelt, yet that is number of minnows responsible for diverting enough water to the ocean to provide a year’s supply for 800,000 California families.
800,000 acre-feet of water went to waste based on the science of four buckets of minnows. That is enough water to produce crops on 200,000 acres or 10 million tons of tomatoes; 200 million boxes of lettuce; 20 million tons of grapes. You get the picture?
http://westernfarmpress.com/blog/californians-lose-800000-acre-feet-wate...
http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_24993601/california-drought-past-d...
Good luck California, especially keeping the front lawns green to maintain the house price valuations.
Most them "green lawns" are in LA. Lots of other places natural shrubbery, etc. even big now installing artificial turf.
Look, the abusers of the water shortage y'all keep funnin' about are primarily LA and to some extent SF, the Progressive Dreams.
Here in Central Coast Area, we're already at about 1/3 per capita water usage of the state as a whole.
It's the big cities where the votes are that nothing's being done.
In fact, water necessary for crops in the Central Valley is diverted by aqueduct to the cities (aka Votes) and to raise the fucking 1 eyed smelts. Which in this Latter Case is NOT ECOLOGICALLY SOUND as it's man fucking with mother nature because he thinks that he knows best what's good for the fucking smelt. Progressive Assholes.
The Sierra Club eons ago understood that until it was taken over by people like PETA
You smelt it, you delta !!!
We want... A SHRUBBERY!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69iB-xy0u4A
Sell your lawn to the state buy-sod program and then cover your yard in dead sea lions and other ocean life thats being exterminated by Fukushima. Win-win.
I'm in the Bay Area and I watered my front lawn for a solid 15 minutes today. It was awesome.
If only moar GTLB people moved to Ca maybe DC would help them moar. Oh wait....?
4 down arrows, but MAX speak da truf...
Yeah. We need more smelt in California. We don't need more people. Especially people trying to grow things in a desert.
He who smelt it Delta it.
"Global Warming" on the West Coast and "Ice Age" on the East Coast.
Lots of hand-wringing over something we will never ever have control over.
The evil is in Washington DC, so that is where to cold is.
So you're saying hell has frozen over.
So you're saying hell has frozen over.
I am sure if we just drove more Prius' shit would work out
Naahhh.. Gonna git me one of them Teslers fer under 20 thou soon nuff
Stop the spraying of so Cal and maybe the rain would return , but who cares no-one looks up anyway
I see a business opportunity for Boston Truckers-
Somebody, do something.
Fresnel Lens Solar Distillation
Solar Powered Reverse Osmosis Filtration
Pacific Ocean Salt Water
Bing, bang, boom... problem solved
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXjMAItCMl0
http://espwaterproducts.com/about-reverse-osmosis.htm
So is this the effect of climate change or the influx of tens of millions of immigrants drawing upon the same limited resources?
al gore can fix this
And Vegas is even a more brilliant idea.
San Paulo today, Vegas in less than 5 years.
I'm in SE Illinois and we have about 8" of snow covering a full water table from fall and winter rain. I'm sure spring will be floods to keep us out of the fields on time.....but dry we ain't.
Ca should train the water in, at least they wouldn't have to worry about the fuckers blowing sky high !!!
Sssshhhh...don't tell Warren. BTW, fuck that. Go to where the water is or STFU.
I'm going somewhere else. STFU is just too hard to do !!!
The first thing to do would be to fire ALL politicians and replace them with people who actually work for a living; they will be able to come up with solutions to the problems that CAN be addressed. The second thing to do would be to make lobbying a crime punishable by death; this will keep the scum away from working people who ARE solving problems...
All those assholes in the rest of the country must be stealing it.
I see no use for ski resorts and the CEOs that manage them to exist on this planet, so could care less. Same for golf courses. What a effing waste of real estate, water, and everything else. It's a riot watching these assholes hit a little ball with a club raking in millions and thinking they are important and living a useful life. I would like California to get wet for good garlic and other produce, but screw the ski resorts.
Czervik, is that you?
Looks like knukles is gonna have dust coming out of his tap soon. LOL.
All those west-coast cunts deserve it, can't wait until they start rationing water to flush your fucking toilet.
95% of our produce comes from California.
AND alot of other food stuffs.
Start a Garden folks.
Yeah, but the solution is simple -
Run the trains in the other direction (California isn't the only farm land in the US).
Maybe so, but California has had the climate to grow much of what may not be able to be grown elsewhere and fruitfully.
In some corners of CA, too much water use will result in fines.
Oh my God! The skiers! Save the skiers! And the resorts!
What will the trust fund silver spoon babies and Silicon Valley iParasites do without a ski vacation!?!? Pick lettuce? Harvest almonds? That's for the little people!!! Contact Obama, stat!
The people you're referring to have other places to skii.
Just a G6 flight away no doubt.
Having once lived in a ski resort town, I can unequivocally state a bad ski season is economically devastating to thousands of "little people" who work behind the scenes at these locations.
If we are to blame cold weather for the crappy economy in the East Coast, then California should have the best economy for the last 7 years (due to drought conditions and warm winters). Bullish on California!
Don't worry, most saisonal employees come from Argentina, Brasil and Eastern Europe.
global warming?
I heard some NASA study said most of America would be in a killing drought by 2050. I thought I would like to be reincarnated at one time but, meh, maybe not.
Global warming out west. Global cooling in the east.
I think the bankers and Hollywood are learning all that printed money can't buy good weather.
(PS - HAARPies - you're so full of BS).
And lest we forget -
Man-made climate change?
Ah, NO. Mr. Sun will have the last word every time.
If only John Lennon were alive today he could do a remake and call it "There goes the Sun " !!!
Except that was a George Harrison Song, Just Saying...
Doh !!!
Your right, because the greenhouse effect was completely made up. Nope doesn't happen, can't find any sort of atmospheric science behind it. Nope your right.
Geoengineering may be causing drought. An explanation of what "they" are doing with this technology would be nice.
The satellite photography shows an ongoing, continuous, large scale "geoengineering" project off the west coast over the pacific.
http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/pacific-northwest-off-coast-spraying/
I didn't think humans could alter the weather, no matter how much we tried, it's always the sun. Right?.....Right!
When you cut off someone's water supply ("I...DRINK...YOUR MILKSHAKE!...SCHLUUURP!") you can't complete the land grab before exterminating the remaining vermin with a nice big can of Triple XXX Death Spray. Everybody knows that!
If you want good ski conditions guaranteed - SKI Dubai - yeah, right in the middle of a desert!....I shit you NOT...
http://www.theplaymania.com/skidubai
Big Oil Brown to the rescue! Water for fracking and Big Ag.
Butkiss for the folkspeople God help 'em.
today's forecast: Arctic Methane Emergency under mostly sunny skies. The forecast for this Summer: Smallest Arctic icecap in one (1) beeeelion years. Now, here's ToDay's headlines...
LULZ
(1) may be closer to 0.055B.
Time to consider some serious coping strategies:
1. Shower with a friend - tried and true hippie standard.
2. Shower in used dishwashing water or clotheswashing water.
3. Flush toilet with used shower water.
4. Don't shower. French favorite.
5. Don't wash clothes - homeless favorite.
6. Use sewer outfall water for agriculture.
7. Paint lawns and golf courses green instead of wasting water on them.
8. Build the Keystone pipeline but use it for water instead of oil.
9. Drag in iceburgs from the Arctic.
10. Annex Mexico and Central America, divert Panama Canal water to California via pipeline.
11. Build nuclear-powered desalination plants on the San Andreas fault.
12. Give up coffee, tea, salted chips, and beer - all are diuretics.
13. Use stronger anti-perspirants.
14. Ban all sports and gyms - too much sweating.