Baby, It's Cold Outside

KPIX5 meteorologist Darren Peck discusses cold
temperatures and the upcoming winter storms.

It's freezing this morning in the Bay Area, and this time it's not hyperbole.

Last night’s temperatures ranged from the upper 20s to the low 40s, across the Bay Area, [NWS meteorologist Drew] Peterson said, with the below-freezing temperatures mostly hitting the North Bay, with “isolated pockets” of freezing temperatures across the interior East Bay and as well as the eastern parts of the South Bay.

A wave of storms this week should make skiers happy and put a dent in the drought.

Just like November, 2019:

As of Thursday, an average 77.8 inches of precipitation had fallen between Mount Shasta and Lake Tahoe since Oct. 1 — about 212 percent of average for the period.

Going back two years further (May, 2017):

[Tahoe] is filling up fast, and about a foot away from reaching full capacity. Federal water managers say Tahoe will fill this summer for the first time in 11 years, and when it does, the total amount it will have risen across the water-year between Oct. 1 and Sept. 30 will be record-breaking.

"What we've come up so far and what we expect to come up will be the largest rise at the lake in 117 years of recorded history."

Water shortages that pop up in years where there are not heavy rains are the result of gross incompetence by those who are trying to shift the blame from themselves.