We’re average, and that’s good. Just before 4 p.m. Monday afternoon, the amount of water in Lake Oroville topped the 2,569,644 acre-feet that is the average storage for March 14, and that’s the first time in almost three years the lake has been where it’s supposed to be.

The lake water level was rising about a foot every 2 1/2 hours Monday, according to the Department of Water Resources website. More important, about 5,000 acre-feet of water was being added to the lake each hour, with inflow to the lake topping 60,000 cubic feet per second.