LOS ANGELES — This year’s epic snowpack in California’s Sierra Nevada could top records, state officials said Monday, and significant flooding is expected when it melts and flows down from the mountains. The water content of the statewide snowpack as reported by a network of automated sensors on Monday was 237% of average to date, said Sean de Guzman, water …
After a spring storm, a worker clears the deck of snow at the top of the aerial tram at Palisades Tahoe on April 17. But on Friday, the UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab in Donner Pass said it had received 76 inches of powder since the start of the month thanks to April’s storms — nearly doubling the 41 …
A fisherman on the shore of Folsom Lake during a drought in Folsom, California, last month. “Without any significant storms on the horizon, it’s safe to say we’ll end this year dry and extend this drought a third year.” California’s water year runs from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30. California California snowpack dwindles after a dry January After one of …
Snow melts into a creek flowing into the South Fork American River, near the area where the California Department of Water Resources held the second snow survey of the season. “January basically wiped out whatever head start we had as we head toward the end of winter,” said Sean de Guzman, manager of snow surveys for the Department of Water …