Apr 4, 2016
California’s Water Supply for 2016: Context is Everything
Los Angeles, CA
San Diego, CA
USA
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Weather Underground
The ruins of the Hannig Ice Cream Parlor are shown in the ghost town of St. Thomas on August 3, 2015, in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Nevada. Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images
The pivotal end-of-March snow survey results are in from California’s Sierra Nevada--and whether the results are good or bad depends largely on your point of view. The current snowpack is about average when viewed from long-term climatology, bountiful against the backdrop of four years of punishing drought, and paltry next to what other “super” El Niño events have produced