Muddy Water

An hour or so ago I looked out a window on the north side of the 27th floor and saw something spectacular: a sharp line in the Bay running from the piers over to Treasure Island, marking a border between deep blue water on one side and murky brown on the other. I realized that it was a graphic illlustration of the magnitude of the recent storms. The Sacramento flows into San Pablo Bay, which is where it noramlly dumps its silt as it hits the cold water of the Bay; the blue/brown boundary moves back and forth with the tide, but it's often very distinct (you can see it very clearly in satellite images). Today, though, the volume of runoff is such that the swollen river is delivering its silt all the way into the main body of San Francisco Bay, almost to the Golden Gate. It has to be one hell of a lot of water to do that...but then it's rained at least 30 days in the last 3 weeks, so I shouldn't be that surprised.

[That's all, folks]