Know Before You Go: Heat-Related Illness and How to Prevent It Summer means long days and fun in the sun. After winter melts away it’s time for hiking, biking, and playing in the water. With summer in full swing, it’s time to brush up on heat-related illnesses and how to prevent them. Heat-related illness is often avoidable, yet it kills around 600 people per year. Check out what experts have to […] Katy Shipley | July 12, 2021 0 Comments
California’s Water Conservation Project To See Reduced Allocations Due To Below-Average Winter California has now experienced its second consecutive dry winter, which has prompted state water managers to reduce allocations to the state water project. The project supplies water to 29 contractors who provide water for 27-million Californians and 750,00-acres of farmland. The state Department of Water Resources announced that it would only deliver 5% of the requested allocations following the below-average precipitation […] Weather Nick Retterer | March 29, 2021 1 Comment
Does Obesity in U.S. Cities Correlate with Their Proximity to Ski Resorts? This week, Wallethub.com published its findings on 2021’s Most Overweight and Obese Cities in the U.S. In the report, Wallethub listed the top 100 most populated metro areas in the United States and ranked them based on 19 categories that they determined indicate weight-related problems. Some of these categories include the highest percentage of obese adults, the highest percentage of […] Brains Liam Abbott | March 5, 2021 0 Comments
Legendary Diver Merman Mike Retrieves $17k Ring From Sacramento River, CA Ultimate good samaritan Merman Mike comes to the rescue again! A very sentimental ring was dropped into the Sacramento River from the boat of Bill Fetty on June 23, 2020. The ring was a gift from his late brother and was valued at $17,000. Fetty was crushed when the ring quickly went out of sight sinking beneath the surface… then […] Elliot Levey | July 2, 2020 0 Comments
Snow Forecasted for Sacramento, CA Today at an Elevation 30 Feet! 0.5″ of snow is forecasted for Sacramento, California tonight. Sacramento sits at 30 feet above sea level. This is a damn cold storm. Tahoe is forecasted to get 2 feet in the high mountains tonight and tomorrow. Record lows were reached this morning in California’s Sacramento Valley: Confidence with very low elevation snow tonight/early Sat. Clouds are filling in across northern CA with light rain/snow currently over […] Weather SnowBrains | December 6, 2013 2 Comments