California's winter snowpack is suffering after the state saw historically dry weather in January and February, and March is on the same track.
California's drought-ridden Sierra Nevada snowpack is melting. Photo taken at Phillips Station on March 1, 2022.California's winter snowpack is suffering after the state saw historically dry weather in January and February, and March is headed down the same track. An early spring heat wave this week brought record-breaking temperatures that accelerated snowmelt.
Rizzardo said the finding came after aircraft with the Airborne Snow Observatory mission collected data on snowmelt in the Feather, Tuolumne and San Joaquin watersheds, finding shrinkage from early February to late March."From these analyses, we also get an idea for the cold content of the snow, or how much energy it takes to melt the snow," he wrote in an email."The lower the value, the less energy it takes to melt the snow.
Unless the mountains get cooler and cloudier weather, Rizzardo said the rate at which the snow is melting will only speed up. On Friday, conditions across the Sierra were far from cool and cloudy — with sunny skies and record-breaking temperatures bringing summer-like weather in early spring. The Tahoe Basin saw afternoon highs in the
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