Nine winter atmospheric rivers that brought much needed rain and snow, have been the biggest engine for snow accumulation in the Sierra.
UC Berkeley’s Snow Lab recorded the snowpack at 205% of average for this time of year. They put the entire state of California at 166%.
“Here at the Central Sierra snow lab we have 48 inches of snow water equivalent, which is the amount of water that you get from melting snowpack. And realistically speaking, as long as we have cool temperatures moving forward and we don’t see any large rain on snow events, we should be able to keep most of that water that’s in there,”
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