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To 2022 when large swaths of the state were in severe or extreme drought. we ve never met snowpack this big to get a more accurate picture of how much snow california is under. airborne snow observatory flies over the mountains, providing its findings to the state s department of water resources. we measure snowpack wall to wall over mountains from aircraft using lasers and spectrometers, and from that information, we can then know the full distribution of how much water there is in a mountain snowpack. and also how fast it s going to melt. and that s allowed us then to change forecast errors from being pretty large to very small and really dramatically changed water management in the west. look at imagery of the ptolemy basin, your yosemite valley at this time last year, there s barely any snow. now look at this year. the bright yellow, ....

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