The California snowpack — a key source of the state's water — measured 113% of average this week, and about 40% higher than at the same time in 2018.
In a boost for California’s water supply, a series of recent storms that blanketed the Sierra Nevada in snow has built the state’s snowpack to its highest December level since 2015.
Data show the snowpack on Monday — the most recent date statistics were compiled — was also 182% higher than the same day in 2017, which was a banner year for precipitation that pulled large swaths of Northern California out of persistent drought conditions. “It’s a good sort of trend that we’re on and we certainly hope it continues, but we have to consider the high variability of the California climate and plan for that,” Bisnett said. “A couple of storms can really change the balance between a wet year and a dry year.”
“Climate change models predict extreme variability in our precipitation to be the new norm, which is a signal to Californians that we should be ever vigilant, and always prepared for the possibility of wet or dry years,” she said.
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