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It wonât be enough to help the state out of its deep rainfall deficit. Most Bay Area cities and Los Angeles have received about 40% of their normal rainfall totals, and only a month remains in the stateâs winter rainy season, which typically ends around the beginning of April.
Typically, December, January, February and March are the four wettest months of the year in California.
A year like this one hasnât happened often since California became a state. The seven-month period from July 1 to the end of February has been the seventh driest in San Francisco in the past 172 years, since 1849, when records began. And over the same time, the Northern Sierra Nevada, which is key to the stateâs water supply, is suffering through it sixth driest season, according to calculations from Jan Null, a meteorologist with Golden Gate
This year will likely be critically dry for California
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Ramesh Gautam, chief of California Cooperative Snow Surveys Program (L) and Sean de Guzman, chief of Snow Surveys. Photo - DWR
PHILLIPS STATION, Calif. - The second manual snow survey of the season was conducted by the Department of Water Resources (DWR) at Phillips Station on Wednesday. They measured 63 inches of snow with a snow water equivalent (SWE) of 17 inches, which is 93 percent of average at that location.
The SWE measures the amount of water contained in the snowpack and is a key component of DWR’s water supply forecast. The series of storms helped, but not enough to make up the deficient of last few months, said Sean de Guzman, Chief of DWR’s Snow Surveys and Water Supply Forecasting Section.
Ramesh Gautam, chief of California Cooperative Snow Surveys Program (L) and Sean de Guzman, chief of Snow Surveys. Photo - DWR
PHILLIPS STATION, Calif. - The second manual snow survey of the season was conducted by the Department of Water Resources (DWR) at Phillips Station on Wednesday. They measured 63 inches of snow with a snow water equivalent (SWE) of 17 inches, which is 93 percent of average at that location.
The SWE measures the amount of water contained in the snowpack and is a key component of DWR’s water supply forecast. The series of storms helped, but not enough to make up the deficient of last few months, said Sean de Guzman, Chief of DWR’s Snow Surveys and Water Supply Forecasting Section.
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.
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