SF News 6.4 Billion Gallons Of Water Landed In Lake Tahoe Since Yesterday It's been raining in Tahoe. Like, a lot. Over the past 24 hours the lake has reportedly risen 1.92 inches — a height increase that roughly translates to 6.39 billion gallons of
SF News Busted! Motley Crew Of Bay Area Water-Hogs Includes Buster Posey, Motley Crue Singer Everybody who's anybody — Giants catcher Buster Posey, Gold Medal figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi, even Motley Crue lead singer Vince Neil — seems to be wasting water in the East Bay. A new fad among
SF News El Niño Rainfall Totals So Far Disappointing, Way Lower Than '97 Another storm is headed for the Bay Area this week, but according to rainfall totals for the second half of the year so far, this El Nino will not be the drought-buster many
SF News Drought Hates Christmas, Shrinks Christmas Trees Natalie Sare met her husband in 1972 while working on his Christmas Tree farm in Half Moon Bay during college. "He said he was going to fire me because I talked too much,
SF News Alamo And Danville Deserve All The Drought-Shaming Because of public information requests from the media, the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) continues to publish lists of their biggest water wasters since they began penalizing customers for overuse in July.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Heavily Instagrammed Rainbow Over SF Double rainbow over SF @NWSBayArea pic.twitter.com/Z3jy5y9MtO— Scot Hampton (@shamptonian) October 28, 2015 It was going to rain. Really it was! Like, a lot. But, you see... While Mother Nature appeared
SF News Brace: First El Niño Storm Could Arrive In Two Weeks You know how Southern California got that drenching last week? Well, it may be our turn as soon as two weeks from now, according to a climate scientist at the National Oceanic and
SF News Billy Beane's Water Use Was 24 Times That Of His Neighbors This Year The Executive Vice President of the Oakland Athletics, Billy Beane, is a rich man. And, as is often the case with rich men, Beane appears to be used to getting what he wants.
Arts & Entertainment Another Year Of Drought, Another Year of Teeny-Tiny Pumpkins We know that California's drought is doing all sorts of horrible things to our state, drying us to a Mad Max-like crisp and burning us to ash. And for the second year in
SF News Giant Sequoias, Some Of Earth's Largest Species, Struggle For Life Amid Historic Drought California's Giant Sequoias can live for 3,000 years. But can they survive the region's historic drought? Currently, they're displaying signs of stress, but they've endured much over their Millenia, evolving to resist
Arts & Entertainment That Rain You Felt Yesterday Meant Nothing Rain A photo posted by ioi_ka (@ioi_ka) on Sep 14, 2015 at 8:13pm PDT Though yesterday's brief rain shower was met with a thrill of excitement from parched San Franciscans,
SF News The Sacramento River Delta Could Have Its Own Katrina-Like Levee Disaster As you may or may not be aware, the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta is made up of a series of levees, all of which protect a freshwater source that supplies water to two-thirds
SF News Wildfire Updates: Jerusalem Fire 90 Percent Contained; Rough Fire Grows To 21,000 Acres The national news has, per usual, been making it sound to most of the country like all of California is on fire, and between the 4,000 convicted felons now fighting the fires
SF News Video: How El Niño Works The will-we-or-won't-we game has begun with regard to the "Godzilla El Niño" taking shape off our coast, and this week we got the U.S. Climate Prediction Center’s monthly update which only
SF News River In Downtown San Jose Goes Totally Dry Because Drought A river used to run through downtown San Jose, and now it doesn't. As the Mercury News reports, the Guadalupe River is history, with fish and wildlife missing or dead. "I'm heartbroken," said
SF News Another Lake County Wildfire, The Jerusalem Fire, Breaks Out Right Next To The Rocky Fire To our north in Lake County, just to the south of the Rocky Fire which has ultimately burned 70,000 acres over 12 days and is now 85 percent contained there's now a
SF News Godzilla El Niño Plus The 'Blob' Could Mean Rain For Northern California, Or It Still Could Not Though chances remain fairly high that the strengthening El Niño will mean a lot of wetness (and possible flooding) for the Bay Area, there is a chance the majority of the rain will
SF News There Are Now 21 Wildfires Burning In California; Rocky Fire Grows To 60,000 Acres What's turned out to be the most massive wildfire of the season so far, the Rocky Fire that began last Wednesday in Lake County has now spread across two other county lines, Colusa
SF News Fire Updates: Rocky Fire Grows To 8,000 Acres; Big Creek Fire Grows Near Yosemite A wildfire to our north in Lake County that broke out Wednesday afternoon quickly spread to burn 8,000 acres of trees and brush. It's called the Rocky Fire, and the Chron reports
SF News Video: Broken San Bruno Pipe Releases Millions Of Gallons Of Water A major water pipeline ruptured last night in San Bruno, spilling millions of gallons of water and remaining open into this morning NBC Bay Area reports. According to the San Francisco Public Utilities
SF News 'Godzilla El Niño' Now Being Called 'Strongest In Recorded History' Um, guys? This winter could be a disaster! But the skiing is probably going to be insane. A new piece in the Washington Post, and the new thermographic image above, are here to
SF News Weather Report: Heat Now, Maybe Rain Later This is a weird goddamn summer, right? All that rain and mist last week, combined with more possible rain from Hurricane Dolores coming up our way by the weekend, is turning this into
SF News Famed Nudist Colony Arraigned On Charges Of Siphoning Water Amidst CA Drought For the residents of Lupin lodge, a Los Gatos nudist camp with an 80-year history, the drought has been devastating and water — not just for skinny dipping — has been in short supply. Last
SF News 'Godzilla El Niño' Now Predicted This Winter Back in April, meteorologists were hesitantly optimistic. But now as ocean temperatures in the Pacific are heading record highs with no signs of stopping, some weather people are getting downright bullish that this
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Day Around The Bay: Local Chefs Save Water While Cooking Too California chefs, in particular several in San Francisco like Octavia/Frances chef Melissa Perello, are doing their part to conserve water during the drought, doing things like watering plants with leftover cooking water,
