This Global Warming Has Been A Blessing For Midwesterners: Fort Peck Reservoir Rose More Than 2 Feet In August; Second Highest August Runoff Into Fort Peck In Its History; Army Corps Releasing More Water; September 6, 2014

Remember this headline and link from earlier this year, April 12, 2014: More Snow For Montana; More Water For Lake Sakakawea -- Will This Winter Of Global Warming Ever End?

Yesterday I noted that the US Army Corps of Engineers releases enough water from Lake Sakakawea in 14 hours to frack every Bakken well that will be drilled this year.

Now, even more snow for Montana is predicted -- and when it all melts, most of it flows down the Yellowstone and the Missouri, to end up at Lake Sakakawea, adding to even more USACE run-off.

There was additional background at this post.

Now, even more water.  The Billings Gazette is reporting:

With near-record runoff into Fort Peck Reservoir in August — 170 percent of normal — the massive lake in northeastern Montana rose more than 2 feet, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

The Corps manages the upper Missouri River Basin series of dams from Fort Peck downstream. Agency officials announced the numbers during a Friday conference call.

It was the second highest August runoff into Fort Peck in its history, totaling 899,000 acre feet — an area equal to about 1,400 square miles. An acre foot is the amount of water it takes to cover one acre in 1 foot of water. The highest August runoff into the reservoir came in 1993, when 981,000 acre feet poured into the lake.

All of the water came from rain that fell at a rate about 400 percent above normal.

“August runoff was the third highest since 1898,” said Jody Farhat, chief of the Missouri River Basin Water Management Division.

One can track the release of water from a down-river dam -- the Garrison Dam -- at this site. Over the next three days, the average Garrison Dam release will be 26,000 cfs (cubic feet / second). To understand this number, here is a report from earlier this spring (from one of the links above):

Jody Farhat, water management chief for the corps, said plans are to step up releases through Garrison Dam from the current 18,000 cubic feet per second to 24,000 cfs by April 15 and 25,000 cfs by the end of the month.

Farhat said May average releases should be around 27,000 cfs and 30,000 cfs for June. 

She said that would mean a 2-3 foot increase in the level of the Missouri River through Bismarck and Mandan.

Exciting times.  I find it amazing what the global temperature increase of 0.85 degree in a century can result in; the warmists all predicted more snow and more rain.

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Blue Whales Saved By Global Warming

Two data points.

The Los Angeles Times is reporting:

Good news, whale lovers: A new analysis suggests that there are as many blue whales living off the coast of California as there were before humans started hunting them to near extinction 110 years ago.

Today, there are roughly 2,200 blue whales who range from Mexico in the south to Alaska in the north. In the 1930s, that number was closer to 750.

The University of Washington is reporting:

Following rapid warming in the late 20th century, this century has so far seen surprisingly little increase in the average temperature at the Earth’s surface. At first this was a blip, then a trend, then a puzzle for the climate science community.

More than a dozen theories have now been proposed for the so-called global warming hiatus, ranging from air pollution to volcanoes to sunspots. New research from the University of Washington shows that the heat absent from the surface is plunging deep in the north and south Atlantic Ocean, and is part of a naturally occurring cycle. The study is published Aug. 22 in Science.

Subsurface ocean warming explains why global average air temperatures have flatlined since 1999, despite greenhouse gases trapping more solar heat at the Earth’s surface.

Oh, speaking of which, the rising sea predicted by warmists. Doesn't exist. Not a lot of people know that is reporting, based on graphs even my granddaughters can interpret:

It does not take a genius to work out that sea levels have actually declined in the last decade or so. At the longest running gauge in Honolulu, NOAA offer a comparison of 50 yr trends.

Again, these graphs are from the NOAA, the official US government "global warming" agency.

I can't make this stuff up. A big thank you to all the sources providing this data and the links.