The snowpack hasn't been this close to its all-time average since 2010, making it an unusual year, especially after last year's record-breaking snowfall.
The Sierra Nevada mountains have had an unusually average year of snowfall, which scientists say is out of the ordinary.According to the California Department of Water Resources , the snowpack in the Sierras was 110 percent of the average for that date as of April 1.Images taken by MODIS on NASA's Terra satellite show the snowpack levels on April 2.
suffered from severe drought from 2020 to 2023, largely due to a La Niña effect. As La Niña began to diminish in early 2023, a series of atmospheric rivers led to an exceptionally wet winter in California.El Niño and La Niña are climatic phenomena that are part of a larger pattern known as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation .
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