Austin Godber @godber@az.social

#PatioLife

Given all the rain and snow in #Arizona this summer I've been watching the snow pack and reservoir levels for months. The SRP reservoir levels have been boring since they've been pegged at 100%.

Just in the last few days has it dropped to 99%. But now we're getting weird early monsoon storms.

https://streamflow.watershedconnection.com/Dwr

#weather #drought

More rain in #arizona yesterday. SRP reservoir system at 95%, Roosevelt at 98%. The only thing not in the 90% is Horseshoe which is at 74% and there's probably plenty of runoff to come.

https://streamflow.watershedconnection.com/DWR?reportDate=2023-3-22

#drought

I kid you not, these are real SciFi Original movies: 2, 3, 5 & 6 headed shark attack.

What, no four headed sharks?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sci_Fi_Pictures_original_films

I’m pretty sure the gray material here is what was used on old #Airstream step covers. This was inside the camco radius cover and I had to remove it to get the step to close.

I've started playing with #FDIC data to check some of my thoughts about the #SVB failure. Given that SVB had less than 10% of its balances below the FDIC limit, one obvious question to ask was:

"What is the distribution of covered balances across other banks?"

I think this is the answer:

"Most other banks have about 75% of the balances covered"

There are probably lots of interesting details and nuances here ... more to come later.

Data came from here:
https://banks.data.fdic.gov/docs/#/

From the "Gettin' Fancy" portion of my #Python #Matplotlib talk. You can typeset labels and text in LaTeX.

In 2015 I did this presentation on the #Python #Plotting library #Matplotlib. I've probably referred back to it to remember how to do specific things 50 times since then.

https://github.com/desertpy/presentations/blob/master/matplotlib/DesertPy_Matplotlib.ipynb

Another cloudy day in #Phoenix #Arizona. There's still snow uphill in the Verde and Salt Watersheds. Roosevelt is at 89%. I guess the salt and verde reservoirs will be effectively full at the end of the season.

#drought

https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/WCIS/AWS_PLOTS/basinCharts/POR/WTEQ/assocHUC6/150602_Verde.html

https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/WCIS/AWS_PLOTS/basinCharts/POR/WTEQ/assocHUC6/150601_Salt.html

https://streamflow.watershedconnection.com/DWR?reportDate=2023-3-14

The US Treasury's 1337 solution

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1337

#SVB

#bird of #moab

It’s colder and cloudier today than when I took this picture. Less wind tho.

Enjoying the wildlife of Moab

At the VNSA book sale in #phoenix #arizona … so many different kinds of dictionaries!

Here's the result of yesterday's snow in the Salt River #Arizona watershed.

https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/WCIS/AWS_PLOTS/basinCharts/POR/WTEQ/assocHUC6/150601_Salt.html

There's more snow in Northern #Arizona, rain across the state. The Salt River reservoirs are at 81% and Verde at 70%. There was even thunder and lightning with last night's storm. NOTE the snowpack increased since my Feb 7 update.

#Phoenix #water #drought

https://streamflow.watershedconnection.com/DWR?reportDate=2023-2-14

https://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/ftpref/data/water/wcs/gis/maps/az_swepctnormal_update.pdf

The USDA has an interactive site that compares current with historical snow pack information by watershed, country wide I think. So for the #Phoenix #Arizona area served by SRP you can see the Salt and Verde areas here:

#weather #drought #wx

https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/WCIS/AWS_PLOTS/basinCharts/POR/WTEQ/assocHUC6/150601_Salt.html

https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/WCIS/AWS_PLOTS/basinCharts/POR/WTEQ/assocHUC6/150602_Verde.html

There's still snow in northern #Arizona. The Salt river reservoirs are up to 80% and Verde system is up to 68%.

#Phoenix #water #drought

refs:

https://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/ftpref/data/water/wcs/gis/maps/az_swepctnormal_update.pdf

https://streamflow.watershedconnection.com/DWR?reportDate=2023-2-6

western social update: I've been quiet lately, but I've been busy on a special project that's likely to be finished soon. az.social needs a version update, hopefully before the next mastodon release comes out.

I am slowly learning more front end dev stuff. It's all been new to me.

#mastoadmin #AiArt #stablediffusion

All that snow is still sitting up north. The Salt River reservoirs are at 80% and the Verde is at 67%. More precipitation expected this week.

#Arizona #weather #drought

https://streamflow.watershedconnection.com/Dwr

https://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/ftpref/data/water/wcs/gis/maps/az_swepctnormal_update.pdf