November 13,2014-
California’s keystone reservoir – Shasta in northern California got only 2.5 inches of precipitation last water year until February when it finally started coming down. Still, the reservoir that feeds the entire state CVP system – took in only 35.5 inches the entire water year.
Now the gauge has restarted as of September 30 and so far as of today we stand at 6 inches in the bucket, not great,but better than 2.5 in.
Wet weather is slated for the north part of the state over the next 10 days with the Redding 10-day forecast showing rain in five of those days going into Thanksgiving.
Here is a NOAA map showing some 2.2 inches expected around Shasta in the next week and down to the Tahoe area. Central Coast gets wet too.
Here is a second map showing how Northern California has been the wet spot this water-year so far.
