17 hours ago · In the Sierra, all it takes is one big storm to put the region back on track to have a solid water year — in 1991, a series of March storms boosted the Tahoe Basin’s snowpack from 21 percent to 71 percent; in 2020, early April snow boosted the snowpack from 46 percent to …

Jan 2, 2025 · DWR’s electronic readings from 130 stations placed throughout the Sierra Nevada indicate that the statewide snowpack’s snow water equivalent is 10.7 inches, or 108 percent of average for this date, compared to 28 percent on this date last year. ... On average, the Sierra snowpack supplies about 30 percent of California’s water needs.

Wet winters (such as 2017 and 2023) tend to stack up a deep snowpack, while dry ones keep it shallow. In 2015, long-term hot and dry conditions in California and Nevada brought snowpack to historically low levels. This series of images shows the …

Apr 1, 2024 · Throughout the winter months, snow accumulates on the high peaks of the Sierra Nevada and slowly melts in the spring and early summer. The runoff fills dozens of major reservoirs downstream....

Jan 1, 2025 · Nevada’s NRCS Snow Survey Program provides mountain snowpack data and streamflow forecasts across the state and the Eastern Sierra. This information is valuable for conservation planning, water supply management, flood control, drought and avalanche prediction, climate modeling, and recreation.

Jan 2, 2025 · As of Thursday, there is 24 inches of snow depth in the northern Sierra Nevada, according to the California Department of Water Resources. That amounts to 9 inches of water, or 91% of average, for the Phillips Station site where the survey was done.

snow water equivalent at selected SNOTEL sites in or near the basin compared to the median (or average) of the maximum seasonal values observed each water year for those sites. Contact your state water supply staff for assistance.

Jan 2, 2025 · The Sierra snowpack plays a critical role in California’s water supply infrastructure. As snow melts in the spring, it feeds rivers, reservoirs, and aqueducts that deliver water to millions of...

Apr 11, 2024 · After more than a decade of either unusually wet or unusually dry years, snowpack in the Sierra Nevada was close to normal in 2024. Snowpack throughout the Sierra range was 110 percent of average on April 1, 2024, according to the California Department of Water Resources (DWR).

Jan 2, 2025 · The snowpack near Lake Tahoe is far larger than it was at the start of 2024 but still short of the average for this time of year, California water officials said Thursday in the first manual snow survey of the season.. The survey, conducted at Phillips Station in the northern Sierra Nevada, recorded snow more than three times deeper than what the California …