California's first and second largest reservoirs, respectively, both Lakes Shasta and Oroville are crucial not only for freshwater storage, but also flood control, crop irrigation, and even recreation in the Central Valley. Both lakes also prevent the seep of Pacific saltwater intrusion
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Important Takeaways:
- California’s drought-plagued Lake Oroville is now 100% full after a series of powerful winter storms and melting of historically deep ice pack
- California’s second-largest reservoir, Lake Oroville reached 100 percent capacity Monday, the product of heavy rains and melting snowpack from the surrounding mountains — all thanks to early 2023’s stunning winter storms.
- Both Oroville and Lake Shasta, the state’s largest reservoir, have now swollen to levels not seen across four years of extreme drought, which had been depleting the state’s freshwater reserves since 2019.
- Lake Shasta, as seen in satellite imagery from NASA’s Earth Observatory, is at 97 percent capacity with its surroundings getting greener every day.
- The water picture changed dramatically starting this past December, due to the first of a dozen ‘atmospheric rivers’ that hit California, causing widespread flooding and damaging homes and infrastructure.
- Atmospheric rivers, a meteorological term for high altitude ribbons of moisture, had come surging into the American this past year. One of California’s most well-known atmospheric rivers, the ‘Pineapple Express,’ begins its long journey from Hawaii.
- The past year’s airborne ‘rivers’ dumping as many as 700 inches of snow across the Sierra Nevada mountains.
- ‘California went from the three driest years on record to the three wettest weeks on record
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