Satellite images of the Sierra Nevada show a striking difference between the 2022 and 2023 spring snowpacks.
, show the state of the mountain range's snowpack on April 1, 2022 compared to April 6, 2023 –a time of year when the snowpack is typically at its peak.Sierra Nevada spring snowpack in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023.California Department of Water Resources"Not only was this year wet, it was also unusually cold," Noah Molotch, a mountain hydrologist at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in a statement.
Late last year, nearly all of California was in drought, including at extreme and exceptional levels. Wells ran dry, farmers fallowed fields, and cities restricted watering grass. The water picture changed dramatically starting in December, when the first of a dozen “atmospheric rivers” hit, causing widespread flooding and damaging homes and infrastructure, and dumping as many as 700 inches of snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
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