snowpack

The Sierra snowpack usually supplies about 30% of California’s water each year. In the spring that snow melts and drains in the reservoirs, giving us year round water for crops, drinking, and everyday use. But what about snow drought? Kari Hall reports.

Rainstorms grew more erratic and droughts much longer across most of the U.S. West over the past half-century as climate change warmed the planet

The third snow survey of the season indicated California is headed for another dry year as the state closed out its fifth straight month of below-average snow and rain.

The amount of water in California’s mountain snowpack is only about half of average for early winter.

California’s Sierra Nevada snowpack is below normal for spring and the water content around the state is only about half the April average, as much of California struggles under persistent drought

The Sierra snowpack measured 97% of average as of Thursday after the first survey of the year at Phillips Station, according to the Department of Water Resources.

The Sierra snowpack measured 97% of average as of Thursday after the first survey of the year at Phillips Station, according to the Department of Water Resources.