SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. The California snowpack is more than double of the seasonal average after receiving a significant boost from one of the wettest three-week periods on record, state officials announced Wednesday. The.
December storms not enough to offset dry fall
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Sean de Guzman, chief of the California Department of Water Resources Snow Surveys and Water Supply Forecasting Section, conducts the first media snow survey of the 2021 season on Dec. 30 at Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada
Kelly M. Grow, California Department of Water Resources/Courtesy photo
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SACRAMENTO The Department of Water Resources on Wednesday conducted the first Phillips Station snow survey of the season.
The manual survey recorded 30.5 inches of snow depth and a snow water equivalent of 10.5 inches, which is 93 percent of the Jan. 1 average for this location. The snow-water equivalent measures the amount of water contained in the snowpack and is a key component of DWR’s water supply forecast. While conditions were positive at Phillips Station, statewide, the snowpack is just 52% of average for this date.