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The snowpack in California's mountains is off to one of its best starts in 40 years. Here's what that means for the drought-stricken state.
The snowpack in California's mountains is off to one of its best starts in 40 years. Here's what that means for the drought-stricken state.
Updated on March 3, 2021 at 10:47 am NBC Universal, Inc. Rain, snow and cool temperatures are in the mid-week forecast as a weak late winter storm pushes into Southern California. The region has been basking in warm temperatures, but that changed Wednesday morning as temperatures dropped. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get the latest breaking news and local stories. “Today it’s going to be much cooler,” said NBC4 forecaster Belen De Leon. “It’s going to be cool across the board. “It is sweater weather." Temperatures were in the 70s to start the week, but some ...
“These storms are not nearly enough to make up the deficit we accumulated over the late three months,” said Sean De Guzman, DWR chief of snow surveys. “To make up for those early dry months, we’ll need multiple days of above average precipitation.” The snowpack survey at the Phillips Ranch Station measures snow-water equivalent, which is the depth of water that theoretically would result if the entire snowpack melted instantaneously. Wednesday's results showed a snow depth of 63 inches and a snow-water content of 17 inches. That’s 93 percent of the average snow-water equivalent fo...