je.st
news
Despite help from late-winter storms, California snowpack only 32 percent of normal
2014-04-01 21:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Valley Tribune: A string of late-winter storms was not sufficient to knock out the states three-year drought, leaving critical snowpack levels in the Sierra Nevada two-thirds below normal and predictions of a gloomy summer for farmers and many urban communities, state water managers said Tuesday. Though the Northern California snowpack rose from 27 percent of average on March 1 to 32 percent, hopes for a March miracle were dashed as surveyors carrying hand-held probes climbed down from the snow-covered slopes...
Tags: of
normal
california
percent
Category:Electronics and Electrical