Mountain Snowpack News Today

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washington. we begin this hour with the tempers flaring in nashville. where emotions are raw politics, much like the rest of the us bitterly divided republicans in the state house there voted to expel lawmakers were breaking decorum during a raucous but peaceful protest demanding gun reform that protest ignited by the nashville school shooting that left three adults and three young students dead. how the expulsion vote ended, has only added to the anger representatives justin pearson a...

Oregon’s snow and water supply is in good shape as the weather turns warm and sunny over the next week.

A Thursday update from the U.S. Drought Monitor shows conditions in the Sierra Nevada are “abnormally dry” compared to this time last year.

A wet and flooded past few weeks hasn’t been enough to bring California’s snowpack and some rain averages up to average, according to state officials. State Climatologist Dr. Michael Anderson with the California Department of Water Resources said the “significant precipitation” from recent atmospheric river storms has brought the statewide precipitation to 102% of average […]

California is beginning 2024 with a below-normal mountain snowpack a year after it had one of its best starts in decades, and officials said Tuesday that the weather whiplash has made the outcome of this winter uncertain. The water content of the statewide snowpack was 25% of the average to date, said Sean de Guzman, a […]

To 2022 when large swaths of the state were in severe or extreme drought. weve 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 states 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 sno...

A new study shows that extreme spring heat waves can wipe out mountain snowpack at alarming rates, with big consequences for the West’s water supply.

Evacuation orders have been issued for communities around the Duhamel Creek in British Columbia. Evacuation alerts have been issued for 100 properties within the Six Mile community around the Duhamel Creek in British Columbia, Canada, as of 7:00 p.

Weekend temperatures will be mild as Nevada County residents catch the last blooms of blue dicks, larkspur, lupine and tufted California poppies.