Sierra snowpack now above average following dry start to season
After a very rocky beginning to the Sierra snowpack this season, which boasted only 36 inches total by the first of the year, the recent storms have brought us into normal territory.
In the historic snowpack last year, totals reached over 200 percent of normal with 685 inches reported. This ended a three-years-long drought in California, replenishing a number of water sources in Northern Nevada, and leading to a boon for local fruit trees throughout the valleys.
This year, as of the first of the month, a reported 328 inches of snowfall has pushed the region into a normal snowfall average, thanks in part to recent March storms that brought in an additional 129 inches alone.
The California Department of Water Resources measured the snowpack April 1, and conservationists rejoiced to see the snowpack at 110 percent of the April 1 average.