It's not quite time to panic yet," said Andrew Schwartz, lead scientist at the UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab. "You could look at the next few weeks as a turning point. If we have these next few storms, but then it's dry after that, it's really going to be a problem."
The California Department of Water Resources...measured the snowpack at 19% of normal in the southern Sierra, 27% in the central Sierra and 28% in the northern Sierra. The average snow-water equivalent statewide was 2½ inches of water, down from 17½ inches at the same time in 2023, or 185% of the average for that time of year, according to DWR officials.
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