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constantino675 t1_j5v4as0 wrote

This is why desalination never happens, drought breaks, things fill up, apocalypse doesn't come, media has to go back to reporting celebrity breakups.

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somehobo89 t1_j5wn17z wrote

Nah this isn’t gonna “fill it up.” Not even close - these are high relative to the median, the total water deficit is much greater.

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constantino675 t1_j5wplnz wrote

I dont understand, why would the deficit be measured against something other than the median?

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somehobo89 t1_j5wxbww wrote

This is actually a really cool graph. What it is showing is that the total water in storage now is far higher than it is in a typical year at the same calendar date, and that most of it is in the snow pack.

But that does not equal an end to the drought. The drought has been multiple years of below median total water storage, and it will take several consecutive years of gains like this to recover from the drought.

If Lake Meade fills up to normal capacity this summer I’ll eat my shoe keep an eye out for it

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