The River Rose

Check out this shot captured from the webcam this afternoon.

Early this morning, the Kern surged from barely 300 cubic-feet-per-second to over 3000.

Here's the chart from Corps of Engineers hourly report website.

04JAN2008 2100     351
04JAN2008 2200     521
04JAN2008 2300     521
04JAN2008 2400     710
05JAN2008 0100     987
05JAN2008 0200    2444
05JAN2008 0300    2968
05JAN2008 0400    3069
05JAN2008 0500    2912
05JAN2008 0600    2638

Click to enlarge the photo and notice the waterline as the river recedes. In this shot it's running at about 1400cfs, which is about 200cfs more that it PEAKED at last year

Josh says the rain gauge showed nearly two inches of rain. Whoeeee whatta way to begin the new year!