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A five-day forecast in the early 1980s was only accurate about 65% of the time. But better weather observations, more robust computing power and innovations in the way weather around the globe is ...
Katelynn Chavez, 17, and Pedro Ruiz, 16, taking advantage of a rare snow day off school, hug after making a snowman at Yucaipa Community Park. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
The 320,000 acre⋅ft (390,000,000 m 3) lake, with a surface elevation of approximately 1,500 feet (460 m) above sea level, is the terminus of the West Branch California Aqueduct, though some of its water comes from the 154-square-mile (400 km 2) Castaic Creek watershed above the dam.
A component of the California State Water Project, the reservoir was partitioned from Castaic Lake in 1974 to store water for pumped-storage hydroelectricity generation. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] During on-peak energy-demand hours, water flows 7.5 miles (12.1 km) from Pyramid Lake through the Angeles Tunnel and then on to the turbines of the Castaic Power ...
Castaic is an earth-fill dam with its surfaces covered with boulders and cobble-sized rocks to prevent erosion.The dam is 340 feet (100 m) high above the streambed, 425 feet (130 m) above the foundations, and 5,200 feet (1,600 m) long, containing 44 million cubic yards (34,000,000 m 3) of material. [1]
Lake effect snow is set to hit parts of the Great Lakes region, including Michigan and western New York, throughout the week. Snow forecast: Great Lakes bracing for heavy snowfall this week as ...
Castaic (/ k ə ˈ s t eɪ. ɪ k / ⓘ) (Chumash: Kaštiq; [3] Spanish: Castéc) [4] is an unincorporated community in the northwestern part of Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 19,015. [5] For statistical purposes the Census Bureau has defined Castaic as a census-designated place (CDP ...