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Laguna Views: March Madness

All kinds of weather with few breaks

Dale Dougherty
Mar 12
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Laguna Views: March Madness

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Welcome to Daylight Savings Time. The rains have returned.

Richard Schoellhorn shared this photo that he took on Friday off Sanford Road, just past the Laguna Foundation. It captures the snow atop Mt. St Helena, the flooding of the Laguna and the mustard grasses of early spring — our crazy weather this March.

Photo: Richard Schoellhorn

Larry Robinson shared a photo taken at Palm Drive Hospital “below the helipad behind the hospital.” It also captures the flooded Laguna and snow-capped Mt. St. Helena as well as a sky full of threatening clouds.

The weather continues to be unpredictable. The Russian River is at a level of 20 feet this morning at 8am. However, the river is now forecast to reach flood stage later in the week with new storms coming.

Here’s the NOAA chart. Flood stage is above 32 feet at Guerneville.

CFNRC Hydrology (Sunday morning)

Last Thursday at 8am, the NOAA chart below predicted that the Russian River would reach flood stage on Friday/Saturday but river actually peaked at about 28 feet, as shown in the previous chart.

CFNRC Hydrology (last Thursday morning)

The chart from USGS below shows the 20 foot level reading this morning — but the USGS clocks are still on Pacific Standard Time!

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Naomi Hupert
Mar 13

Great photos!

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Laura
Mar 12

Beautiful photographs! Good weather info too. Thank you.

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