Barely a decade after being claimed as a US state, California ... of the Great Flood, the Central Valley was still mainly cattle ranches, the farming boom a ways off. Late in 1861, the state ...

A 43-day storm that began in December 1861 put central and southern California underwater for up to six months, and it could happen again Geologic evidence shows that truly massive floods ...

How bad was the Great Flood of 1862? Intense rainstorms pummeled central California "virtually unabated" from Christmas Eve 1861 until January 1862, Scientific American chronicled in a 2013 story ...

Things were going well for California in 1861. It had been a state for 11 years ... “Since I last wrote the floods have been far worse than before. Sacramento and many other towns have again ...

The Great Flood of 1862 began in late November 1861, when early winter storms dropped heavy snow in the higher elevations of Northern California and Oregon. In the first few days of December ...

I’m delighted that weatherman Anthony Watts has spot-lighted California’s “Great Flood” of 1861/62, because so few Californians know about it. I taught about it in an OLLI class I called ...

We've compiled some of those images with courtesy to the DWR. The Great California Flood of 1861-1862 was a series of four floods from December 9, 1861, Dec. 23-28, January 9-12, 1862 and ...

A lithograph of K Street in Sacramento, California during the Great Flood of 1861 to 1862. Credit: Wikimedia/Public Domain When it floods in California, the culprit is usually what’s known as an ...

Schools were frequently closed for days during heavy winter storms, even in “sunny” Southern California. The “Great Flood” of 1861-62 was followed by the “Great Drought” of 1863-65.

Giant floods like those that inundated the Central Valley in 1861 and 1862 are part of California’s natural cycle, but the latest science shows that the coming megafloods, intensified by climate ...

Barely a decade after being claimed as a US state, California was plunged in an ... together with specimens of same.” The Great Flood of 1861–1862 was a preview of what scientists expect ...