so great.  big time raining at my house.  loving it.  

 

I checked.  my lakes are getting hammered..  YES YES YES!!  

🌧️👍

Tom

Rain at Castaic doesn't mean much. By law, whatever flows into the lake must then flow out of the lake. Essentially, runoff has little to no effect on lake levels. Lake levels are determined by what flows in via the state water project (the aqueduct) and what the demands are. The snowpack hundreds of miles away is what floats our boats. 

12 hours ago, Big Hands said:

By law, whatever flows into the lake must then flow out of the lake. Essentially, runoff has little to no effect on lake levels.

You'd think after decades of drought and water issues, CA (and AZ) would've built more reservoirs to capture that rain.  Instead, they get critical drought conditions followed by monsoon rains, resulting in flooding and mudslides....even dam breaches; and then all that precious water just drains into the ocean, only for the cycle to start all over again.

 

I don't want to discuss it here.  It's just an observation from the cheap seats.

I don’t ge…yeah…no use spit ball’n here

The feds run our dams. Most of them. 
 

and rain raises water levels.    My friend is army corp of engineers and it’s a method they utilize. 
 

and every major watershed in CA has a huge reservoir.  A new one is about to go in.  But most viable locations are covered.  

SoCal the MWD (Metropolitan Water District) runs and built our water storage system the Feather River Project that transfers NoCal water from lake Orville ( the head water storage) through the Delta to lake San Louis Ray and from there down the aqueduct to distribution for farm land irrigation ( about 75% ) ending in SoCal lakes Pyramid, Castiac and Silverwood. The Feather River system superseded the Owen’s River aqueduct now defunct.

All other lakes in SoCal are rain water storage or water from All American Canal with the Colorado River.

Tom

PS forecast is rain tonight, we can always use rain without flooding.

It rained for 4 days and nights lightly about 5” total, good rain.

We have another storm coming from the north this time and forecasting heavy rain and snow, not good after the soaking we had from the tropical light rain. Mud slides to follow🌧️.

Tom

Wow!!!

We needed the rain, but how was the bite? I haven't caught anything at my local pond. Also temperatures have dropped significantly probably causing shock to the fish. 

The over night temps have dropped to 40 degrees the daytime around 54 that cools the water into winter temps. The bass transition into winter seasonal period.

Tom

The rain is gone, winter water temps are here now🥶

Tom

Another big storm coming with 7” to 10” of rain and flooding starting tonight🌧️

Merry Christmas 

Tom

Yes. I’m eyeballing a run at Shasta once things settle. 

On 12/23/2025 at 9:10 AM, WRB-2.0 said:

Another big storm coming with 7” to 10” of rain and flooding starting tonight🌧️

Merry Christmas 

Tom

Sir..where ever you are, I hope you have the best weather forever... Godspeed.