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Originally Posted by GG Allin
I know nothing about the weather out in the southwest but it looks like there is some rain out there today and the map looked similar yesterday. How many days like this would it take for a sizable increase in the water levels out there.
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It's not so much the rainfall but the snow pack in the Rockies, it's been down. In addition, the soils are so dry (all over the Southwest) that when it does rain or snow, it is quickly absorbed into the ground rather than the water making it's way down to the streams and eventually the Colorado River. Far less water is making its way into Powell and Mead.
I was reading something a few years ago that basically said the 20th century was an abnormally "wet" period for the Southwest and America just populated the area figuring it would always receive a similar amount of rain and snow. We're now leaning we over estimated.