News Release: April 1 Snow Survey Will Reveal Whether Recent Precipitation Has Reversed March’s Steady Decline in Sierra Snowpack
From the California Department of Water Resources (DWR):
“Department of Water Resources surveyors will head back up the mountain on Tuesday, April 1, for their monthly on-the-ground snow survey with an expectation of finding growth in the snowpack due to this week’s storms throughout much of California. …
“Today’s (3/27) snowpack water equivalent as measured electronically by 99 sensors in the Northern, Central and Southern Sierra Nevada range is 7.1 inches, only 25 percent of the date’s average of 28.3 inches.”
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