Wednesday Top of the Scroll: This year will likely be critically dry for California
The winter storms that dumped heavy snow and rain across California early in 2021 are likely not enough to negate what will be a critically dry year, state water officials believe. California’s Department of Water Resources on Tuesday recorded a snow depth of 56 inches and water content of 21 inches at Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada. The water content of the overall snowpack was 61% of the average for March 2 and 54% of the average for April 1, when it is historically at its maximum.
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- The Mercury News: Sierra snowpack at 61% as new drought looms for California this summer
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- KTLA5: California likely faces a critically dry year, with reservoirs and Sierra snowpack already well below average
- Tahoe Daily Tribune: Without a series of storms, California facing critically dry year
- Ag Net West: California Snow Levels Low, Matching Water Storage Levels
- Merced Sun-Star: Is California in for drought? Second dry winter evident in latest Sierra snowpack reading
- ABC10: California’s grim water totals show ‘well below’ normal rainfall totals
- The Weather Channel: Pattern Shift Likely to Bring Much-Needed Rain, Snow to Parts of California, the West Into Next Week