In this story from today’s Bee the plans for water releases will be double the normal Memorial Day flow, (5,000 cfs instead of the normal 2,500 cfs) so be careful out there.
Here is an excerpt.
Capital region's spell of cool weather continues
Showers that brought a half-inch of rain in four days could return this weekend, forecasters say.
By Edgar Sanchez -- Bee Staff Writer Published 12:01 am PDT Tuesday, May 23, 2006
After being splashed by a bit of rain, Sacramento on Monday enjoyed its fourth consecutive day of cool weather, with a high of 71.
Sporadic showers that began Friday ended early Monday, bringing the four-day rain total to nearly a half-inch, the National Weather Service said.
About 2.5 inches fell in the foothills between Friday and Monday.
From the perspective of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation -- which manages several Northern California reservoirs -- those totals were not alarming.
"We do not have any concerns at all about the rain that we had over the weekend," Bureau spokesman Jeff McCracken said.
"It wasn't a warm storm, so there wasn't any significant snowmelt related to it," he said.
"None of the federal reservoirs had to make operational changes due to this storm."
In preparation for the Memorial Day weekend, however, the bureau on Monday began decreasing its releases from Folsom Lake onto the lower American River.
Releases that over the weekend stood at 11,000 cubic feet per second are slowly being lowered to an expected 5,000 cubic feet per second by midnight Friday, McCracken said.
