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This past month has bought a fair share of strange weather pattens including a few days of wet weather in northern California and several weeks of Monsoon rain in Arizona ,some spilling into southern California.(see maps)
In the mid Valley the past 20 days have been over 100 degrees, a few 108s and a 109 in Fresno says NWS. Finally the spell was broken July 16 when it was only 95. Map shows state hots spots including Tulare County.
Meanwhile the warm temps have heated up our cooling off spots like along the Kaweah River near Three Rivers that reached 82 degrees July 5 says the Kaweah River Page website. Water temps on the Kaweah this week are in the high 70s every day at some favorite water pools.
It can be exciting up high as well with thunderstorms for two days this past week in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Flash flooding occurred on I-80 near Truckee. The 24-hour rain amounts were in the 2 to 3 inch range in the Sierras. Such showers typically occurred during a 2-hour period.
The warm temps are hurting fish too. Global warming is likely to bring mass extinction the state’s freshwater fish says a UC Davis study.
Just another reason why we could use some more dams to store and time release cold water in the summer months to help them out.The UC research showed that 82 percent of the 121 native fish species present in California are likely to become extinct, while 19 percent of California’s 50 non-native fish species risk going extinct.