A remarkably wet winter has resulted in some of the deepest snowpack California has ever recorded, providing considerable drought relief and a glimmer of hope for the state’s strained water supply.
at local and state levels, with many decrying the amount of water channeled out to the ocean during storms. Officials said the need to prepare for floods and drought at the same time has only gotten worse as climate change drives weather whiplash, or swings between bouts of extreme weather.raised the spectre of flood risk“That’s something we’re keeping an eye on throughout the weekend,” he said.
“It’s really at this point, when is the weather going to shift in such a way that we go from building snowpack to melting snowpack,” he said. Still, there is no denying the record-setting winter made a dent in drought conditions. The U.S. Drought Monitor on Thursday
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