Let Heaven and Nature Sing! www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20221224-Let-Heaven-and-Nature-Sing-2.pdf A year ago, on Christmas Day, the James Webb Space Telescope was launched. The year since has seen its share of political, strategic, and economic tumult. But it has also seen Artemis I’s successful flight to the Moon and the historic fusion breakthrough of…
For December 22, 2022 (With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20221222-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report 2.pdf A Note to Readers The report begins with two maps from the U.S. Drought Monitor. The current week and the map from November 28. We had two healthy storms in early December and…
For December 15, 2022 (With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20221222-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers The report begins with two maps from the U.S. Drought Monitor. The current week and the map from November 28. We had two healthy storms in early December and the…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20221215-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers Two storm systems in December have dumped more than 100 million acre feet of water (rain and snow) on California. Yet with even large amounts of water going out to the San Francisco Bay…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20221208-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers A brief report due to scheduling. The one item is my report that was published just three days ago, and an earlier version of it was included in this weekly report last week. It…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20221201-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf Attention! The Western States Drought and Water Crisis Is a National Emergency With some rain and snow now bringing some much needed relief to California this week, it is important to remember that one year ago record October…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20221124-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers A happy Thanksgiving to everyone. We shall take the occasion to put off for a week updates on the drought, the Colorado River disaster and related areas of interest. So, this report features the…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20221117-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers In the Feature this week I post my associate Robert Ingraham’s report from the environmentalist get together in Egypt, called COP 27, where nations of the world have gathered to hear the latest forecasts…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20221110-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers Election week and thus the report is brief. Mostly because the media had been distracted. Almost forgotten in the campaign has been the actual dangerous and destructive war in Ukraine. To really understand what…
(With expanded coverage of all the Western States) by Patrick Ruckert www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20221103-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf A Note to Readers Following the maps from the U.S. Drought Monitor, you will find in this report a couple brief reports on the weather (we got some rain and snow in California the last few days), and…
