{"id":1414,"date":"2017-02-02T13:56:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T18:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.100.1.143\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2019-06-03T13:57:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T17:57:16","slug":"recent-rains-swell-lakes-and-rivers-in-central-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imsg.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/02\/recent-rains-swell-lakes-and-rivers-in-central-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Rains Swell Lakes and Rivers in Central California"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"http:\/\/10.100.1.143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2000v1_20170224-CAFlooding.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imsg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2000v1_20170224-CAFlooding.png 960w, https:\/\/www.imsg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2000v1_20170224-CAFlooding-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.imsg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2000v1_20170224-CAFlooding-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.imsg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2000v1_20170224-CAFlooding-700x394.png 700w, https:\/\/www.imsg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2000v1_20170224-CAFlooding-539x303.png 539w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>These color-enhanced composite images captured by the Visible \nInfrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard the \nNOAA\/NASA Suomi NPP satellite in 2016 (left) and 2017 (right) show just \nhow much the recent West Coast rains have swollen California\u2019s lakes and\n rivers down slope of the Sierra Mountains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The image at left, taken February 22, 2016, shows the state of \nCalifornia\u2019s lakes and rivers during time when a large portion of the \nstate was, according to the National Drought Monitor, suffering from \n\u201cextreme\u201d to \u201cexceptional\u201d drought. The image at right, captured on \nFebruary 23, 2017, tells a much different story. Note a significant \ndifference in the width of the rivers, which suggests just how much \nwater the series of recent storms added to them. Not surprisingly, \ncurrent Drought Monitor statistics now show most of the state to be free\n from drought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Link to full article:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nnvl.noaa.gov\/MediaDetail2.php?MediaID=2000&amp;MediaTypeID=1\">https:\/\/www.nnvl.noaa.gov\/MediaDetail2.php?MediaID=2000&amp;MediaTypeID=1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These color-enhanced composite images captured by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard the NOAA\/NASA Suomi NPP satellite in 2016 (left) and 2017 (right) show just how much the recent West Coast rains have swollen California\u2019s lakes and rivers down slope of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-1414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/imsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1417,"href":"https:\/\/imsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions\/1417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}