current water supply conditions - cnrfc - california
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Current Water Supply Conditions
Alan Haynes – Service Coordination Hydrologist
NOAA/NWS – California Nevada River Forecast Center
Friday, January 13th 2012
Sacramento, CA
Cindy Matthews – Senior Service Hydrologist
NOAA/NWS – Sacramento Weather Forecast Office
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90-Day Percent of Normal Precipitation
Valid 1200 UTC January 12th 2012
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Current precipitation deficit ~ 13 inches
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Current precipitation deficit ~ 12 inches
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Snow Water Content Comparison
January 12th 2011 January 12th 2012
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California Snow Water Content
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April-July Runoff Volume Forecast
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3 Month Precipitation Outlook Jan-Feb-Mar
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• Irrigation of permanent crops in Central Valley
• Feeding of range cattle in valley has begun
• Economic impacts to snow recreation industry
• Wildfire threat remains high
Impacts
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Summary
• Very dry so far in 2012
• Water resource availability is buffered due to carryover from last year
• Significantly reduced snowpack will likely result in much lower runoff into reservoirs
• Limited impacts, so far
• Seasonal outcome highly dependent upon late winter/spring weather pattern
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Links
• http://water.weather.gov/precip
• http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/products/PLOT_ESI_2012.pdf
• http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/products/PLOT_FSI.2012.pdf
• http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/resapp/getResGraphsMain.action
• http://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/nsa
• http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/google_ws.php
• http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/climoForecasts.php
Products used in presentation:
Hydrologic Forecasts:
• http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov
• http://cdec.water.ca.gov
• http://www.wrh.noaa.gov
General Weather Forecasts: