The water content of the statewide snowpack as reported by a network of automated sensors was 237% of average to date, said Sean de Guzman, water supply forecasting unit manager for the California Department of Water Resources.
in California's Sierra Nevada could top records, state officials said Monday, and significant flooding is expected when it melts and flows down from the mountains.its reservoirs are filling, with the snowpack yet to melt.
That is greater than any previous April reading since the sensor network was deployed in the mid-1980s, de Guzman said. Manual measurements on “snow courses” date back to 1910 and only the years 1952, 1969 and 1983 showed a statewide result greater than 200% of average in April. Manual measurements continue to the present day, but weather and other dangers, including the threat of avalanches, have prevented access to some locations.
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