All the weather forecasts predicted an “atmospheric river” would fall on Northern California, and rain it did! For nearly a week rain fell on and off, light and heavy, blustery and calm. I saw people posting photos online of the McCloud River higher than I had ever seen it in sixteen years, so I had to go see for myself. By the time I got there, the river had gone down considerably from the photos I had seen online, but it was still well above even high spring runoff flows. It’s truly amazing and humbling to see that much water rushing through the volcanic rock channels and over the waterfalls. This is normal flow for lower falls.

And this was yesterday.

This is Middle Falls on an average day.

And this is how it looked yesterday.

Now the rain has stopped for the most part and I suppose the river will go back to normal. The temperature is falling and soon we will see the snow fly! And that will bring more opportunities for  photographs of nature’s wonder. I await the next show.