Mike Dettinger

@flowinguphill Indeed.

@mdettinger And some of us have been fighting for decades.

Remember… “Better to have fought and lost [not a done deal, btw] than never fought at all.” youtu.be/BP-_6D8dg0g?si… I don’t come here much (at all) anymore, but for Christ’s sake…stand up, push back!

Excellent wisdom-transfer, Steve! Lets hope some sticks. @showproofplease escholarship.org/uc/item/1888w2…

@flowinguphill Crap. I was copying this over from Bluesky, which I mostly inhabit now, as some sort of service to you twerps. And the urls got clipped in process. These should work: mdettinger.com/_files/ugd/3b5… mdettinger.com/_files/ugd/3b5…

@mdettinger Page not found?

Many of you know the AR (atmos River) scale, before that we estab’d R-Cat scale for reporting historically wettest 3-day periods at stations. An R-cat 4 is HUGE, over 500 mm (20 inch) in 3days. The past 3 days have brought RCat lvl precip to 121 stations in Calif!!!! …

@asternmichelle Congratulations Michelle!!

Small UAS remote sensing of soil moisture using an L-band radiometer! 💦🛰️

Continuing this Thursday...the joint AMS/ASCE webinar look at AI and weather, climate & infrastructure design. ametsoc.org/WebinarAIImpli… ametsoc.org/WebinarCurrent…

@kprather88 Things moving forward at your end?

I just met with someone who has spent her life living near the Tijuana Estuary & dealt with the terrible smell. She thanked me & my team for leading to a situation where air does not constantly smell like a "porta potty". As long as TJ River flow is low, the smell will stay low.

@CaWaterBoards Dear CWB: There is a remarkable migration going on over to blue sky social right now (see attached). If your social-media mandate is to communicate with the public, you really need to establish a presence over there. If only to avoid having a faux CWB account established.

The State Water Board announced today that it has cancelled a Jan. 7, 2025, public board hearing on whether to designate the Kaweah Subbasin as a “probationary” basin under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act. Board staff’s preliminary review of amended groundwater sustainability plans found the Kaweah Subbasin has been making notable progress toward addressing identified deficiencies, however, additional work needs to be done to determine if enough progress has been made for the subbasin to exit state intervention.     Read more: waterboards.ca.gov/sgma/groundwat…

⚠ Lake enhanced showers are beginning to blossom roughly along the CA/NV state line SE of Tahoe. Heavier snow showers may lead to rapidly changing road conditions through this afternoon. Up-to-date road conditions: quickmap.dot.ca.gov nvroads.com #cawx #nvwx

Dear agencies: There is a remarkable migration going on over to blue sky social right now (see graph). If your social-media mandate is to communicate with the public, you really need to establish a presence over there.

Dear agencies: There is a remarkable migration going on over to blue sky social right now (see graph). If your social-media mandate is to communicate with the public, you really need to establish a presence over there.

And to receive automated email alerts when atmospheric rivers are forecasted to make landfall along the West Coast, please contact cw3e-website-g@ucsd.edu, and for most things atmospheric-river-ish visit, cw3e.ucsd.edu 3/3 @CW3E_Scripps

And its thus tat time of yr when I need to remind folks of this tool which, basin by basin, shows the ensemble forecasts of precip, rain vs snow, freezing levels that are so relevant to evolving flood risks this time of year. cw3e.ucsd.edu/DSMaps/DS_free… 2/3

Some serious (~AR 5 levels!) atmospheric-river storminess forecast for Oregon next week. (Forecasts this far ahead often moderate as their arrivals approach but even an AR4 cd be dangerous.) See more ARscale & AR forecast products @CW3E_Scripps cw3e.ucsd.edu/iwv-and-ivt-fo… 1/3

From over on Bsky

@bitterwaterblue Soc media can be about info transfer & not only THE fight. Im here now 1/2 time cuz its where agencies are & that is useful (remember useful social media?). Bsky doesnt fdback enuf & is too internat until past wk. So Im torn, but it’s NOT surrender, Pat…it’s prep for new dirxns.