Some Arizona reservoirs are at risk of overflowing

Take much there either for us to get that kind of a runoff and and to see kind of flash flooding. Vegas, same thing. Yeah, it's really incredible just to sort of see the lingering effects, the ongoing effects of the heavy rainfall over over Halloween weekend. The state got so much rainfall that officials are saying that some of the reservoirs in Arizona are at risk of overflowing. I think we may have some of this video here. This is from the Bartlett Dam. Where the Salt River Project, they had to release water from this dam because they were worried about it overflowing the reservoirs here. I mean, this has to be good for the water supply in places like Arizona, especially really early in the season. Definitely. I've been reading reports about Lake Powell seeing an increase on their rate. Major increase. Yeah, and we've all been hoping for more of an increase in water. Around the Colorado River as well, especially for all the folks in Phoenix, because that has grown so much and people are tapping into the same old reservoir, the old same lake and rivers there, the old same system that they say, where are we going to get more water? We're drying up. In fact, reports do indicate if we don't see significant amount of rain and water in lake right around the Colorado River that we could see. A water drought, a severe drought with no more water in Phoenix by the year 2050, which isn't that far away, especially when you continue to grow in the desert areas. All right. And I know you've talked about several more storm systems headed toward the West Coast beginning kind of the middle of next week. What is the impact it has on places like Arizona? Oh, what's north is going to continue to go south and to the east. Right. So the significant amount of rainfall you see right there, this is the first one. It's not really an atmospheric river. The second one is a little bit more El Nino in force, and that's kind of going to kick open that El Nino storm door. But look at that one right there, and look at the date. That's a big storm system. If it stays intact, you know, once it lands on landmass, it begins to... fall apart, but not that one right there. Look at the snow in the greater Lake Tahoe area. Of course, that will be in the highest elevations because with El Nino, these storms are warm based. So we'll start off as water at 6,000 feet and then, you know, rain, and then it ends up as snow in the highest elevations above 7,500 feet. But all of this is going directly to the Pacific Northwest and it sags. You can see that jet stream just carving out a trough, moving into Northern Northern California, Central California, Southern, then up into Arizona. Utah's not going to. Miss this bullet either. And all those places we've already seen really dangerous flooding. And it sounds like obviously that that threat is going to continue to be an issue here in the coming months. Yeah. And this weekend is going to be a great weekend. Lots of sunshine from the Bay Area into Los Angeles, into San Diego, into Arizona. And I say great. And everyone's like, yeah, let's go plan outdoor activities. No, it's time for you to get your chores done. You need to go ahead and get ready for the incoming storm. Yeah. And clean out the gutters. Get ready. There you go. We see a big transition shift in our weather pattern beginning by midweek next week. All right, we'll be tracking it, Roberta. We appreciate it. Thank you. Much more to come here on West Coast Wrap tonight. We'll be right back.