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California Water Update: A mostly adequate year

Posted by: Maven on March 19, 2010 at 6:53 am

From KQED’s Climate Watch:

“Almost everywhere you look this week, California is dry. By which we mean the state is experiencing the first truly warm, rainless week since a series of Pacific storms blew through the state in mid-January.

Hydrologists for the state Department of Water Resources and the federal California-Nevada River Forecast Center expect the warm temperatures to trigger the first significant surge of snowmelt for the season. With slightly above-average snowpacks in the Sierra Nevada, that should help continue to raise reservoir levels. Our 2009-2010 rainy season is likely to go down in water history as adequate–short of hopes for a wet year but an improvement on the past three winters, which were much drier than average. … “

Read more from KQED’s Climate Watch by clicking here.

March 19, 2010 · Filed Under Drought, Weather & Snowpack

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