…April snowpack to be measured at 183 percent of the historic average. The late winter storms increased the Sierra Nevada snowpack, but they were not enough to offset one of…
Farm City Newsday Wednesday, 03-07-18
Get the latest agriculture news in today’s Farm City Newsday, hosted by Taylor Hillman. Snowpack totals make a huge jump in just over a week yet are still well below…
Third Snow Survey Shows Improvement from Last Month
…levels. While the statewide snowpack measured 22 percent of the historic average last week, the largest Sierra storm system of the winter has brought the snowpack up to 37 percent….
UCCE to be a Leader in Climate Change Awareness and Education
…can explore projected changes in temperature, precipitation, snowpack and sea level rise in California over this century with interactive climate data visualizations. They can download data, find peer-reviewed research and…
Farm City Newsday Monday, 02-05-18
Get the latest agriculture news in today’s Farm City Newsday, hosted by Taylor Hillman. Water concerns are growing in California with another low-snowpack measurement and AgNet West catches up with…
Second Snow Survey Yields Concerning Measurements
…a SWE of 5.8 inches representing 30 percent of the average. SWE is the depth of water that would theoretically result if the entire snowpack melted at once. “The snow…
Farm City Newsday Friday, 01-05-18
Get the latest agriculture news in today’s Farm City Newsday, hosted by Taylor Hillman. Today we hear about the expected low snowpack totals from the first measurement of 2018 and…
Snow Survey Significantly Below Average
…indicated the SWE of the northern Sierra snowpack is 2.3 inches, which is 21 percent of the multi-decade average. California’s overall snowpack SWE was measured at 2.6 inches, roughly 24…
Water Managers Prepare for New Rainfall Season
The state finds itself in an improved water-supply position going into the 2017-18 winter, thanks to the precipitation and snowpack the previous winter that filled reservoirs, topped rivers, replenished aquifers…
‘Worst is Over’ for Snow-Melt, Officials Say
…heat wave rapidly melted the snowpack and filled Pine Flat Lake on the Kings River, which prompted the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to send a surge of water into…
Final Snowpack Almost Double the Average
The Department of Water Resources (DWR) conducted the final snowpack survey of 2017. The snowpack water equivalent (SWE) totals in the northern, central and southern Sierra Nevada are around twice…
State Water Project Deliveries Increased
With record rainfall in the Northern Sierra and the snowpack still building, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) increased its estimate of this year’s State Water Project (SWP) supply to…
Northern Sierra Precipitation Sets Water Year Record
…precipitation of 29.3 inches in the basin. The snow water equivalent of California’s snowpack is far above average throughout the Sierra Nevada — 176 percent of the April 13…
100 Percent Water Allocation for CVP
…45.8 inches, or 164 percent of the historical average for March 30 (27.9 inches). As a result of the water availability south of the Delta and the amount of snowpack…