It's Pablo Ortiz's favorite time of year: snow survey season! As CA water managers make their forecasts for the rest of the year, he explains why we should care about Golden State snow.
YREKA, Cal. The Klamath National Forest says today the snowpack across the Forest is more than the normal average for its February 1 snow survey results.
Drought-stricken California's winter mountain snowpack is far below average after two historically dry months that reversed gains from storms late last year. The water of the statewide snowpack is just 63% of normal to date and the snowmelt forecast is just 66% of average.