Lakes filling up from the rain??

[Adicted]

Are the lakes filling up at all with all this rain?

roosevelt

pleasant

powell

mead

[dtower]

16 minutes ago, Adicted said:

Are the lakes filling up at all with all this rain?

roosevelt  = 62% FULL (8/14/2022)

pleasant

powell

mead

 

[Ohthatguy]

I have been watching the local lake levels and it's quite disappointing at how little the lakes have risen. Less than a foot for Rosi. I guess not dropping is a win to some degree.

https://streamflow.watershedconnection.com/Dwr

[stanley]

Yep, monsoon rain is great for summer foliage growth and filling stock tanks, but for the most part the lakes depend on winter moisture.  Consistent average/above-average snowpack in the White Mountains for the Salt River and the western slope of the Rockies for the Colorado River is what's needed.

[Roosevelt Mark]

Monsoons help maintain lake levels at best, that's all.

[drcarr]

The southern lakes:

Arivaca, Parker Canyon, Pena Blanca and Patagonia are thankfully all getting pretty full from the monsoon rains....

[BOHNTR]

Scott Reservoir (WM’s) was just above a pond in June……it’s nearing the fill line now.  A few micro bursts up stream helped with that. The canyon feeding it could be heard a mile away roaring during a mini-flood.  
 

A1 on the Rez is also very high from consistent heavy rains for the last two months.  At least it’s helped those two.  Sure hope we get a good snow pack this winter. 

[AZAV8ER]

55 minutes ago, stanley said:

Yep, monsoon rain is great for summer foliage growth and filling stock tanks, but for the most part the lakes depend on winter moisture.  Consistent average/above-average snowpack in the White Mountains for the Salt River and the western slope of the Rockies for the Colorado River is what's needed.

Consistent snow packs as far as I can recall have been non existent since the mid 90's. The snow pack used to be good enough to justify a ski area in the mountains above Tucson. The ski season in AZ early 70's used to run from DEC-MAR, good luck with that now days. The Sierra Nevada snow packs in 82/83 winter was insane, Great Salt Lake overflowed in early 83. The acorn crop in souther AZ has ben absent since mid 90's. Snow in Utah and Colorado has been spotty, for every good snow year there is a bad snow year with several so so years of snow scattered in-between. Climate change? Yep weather has definitely changed but do we really understand the cause of this dry trend? If this trend is because of CO2 then why the heck are we not building nuclear power plants and building cars/trucks that run on CNG?

 

[SunDevil]

Forecast is for another mild La Niña winter. This will be 3 in a row

[Adicted]

Thats not good.  We need a good snow pack big time

[firstcoueswas80]

As green as it is down south, Pena Blanca could still use another couple foot of water. Don't get me wrong the lake looks good launching is no issue at all but it is still approximately 2-3 ft below the upper level water line

[Adicted]

Any word on Alamo Lake?

[Yuma Outdoorsman]

https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-nevada/lake-meads-unusual-summer-rise-likely-aided-by-monsoon-season-2623130/amp/
 

Lake Mead is up 18” recently….hopefully it continues. 

[AZLance]

Pena Blanca Lake Level:

https://azgfd.jefulleralert.com/penablanca/

[AZLance]

Arivaca Lake Level

https://azgfd.jefulleralert.com/ArivacaLake/