With a new storm front bearing down on the Sierra Monday, state water officials were measuring the massive snowpack that will linger for months in the upper elevations.
Officials said the May 1st measurement -- usually the last of the season -- found just over 5 feet of snow on the ground. The last time there was measurable snow at the Phillips snow course on May 1 was 2020, when only 1.5 inches of snow and .5 inches of snow water equivalent was measured.
"The statewide snowpack overall melted at a slower pace than average over the month of April due to below average temperatures early in the month and increased cloud cover," officials said in a news release."An average of 12 inches of the snowpack's snow water equivalent has melted in the past month and it now contains an average of 49.2 inches."
The runoff already has triggered flooding in the San Joaquin Valley and was rapidly filling up reservoirs. On Monday, Oroville was at 91 percent of capacity, Lake Shasta 97 percent and Folsom at 82 percent -- all well over their historical levels on May 1st."No matter how you look at the data, only a handful of years in the historical record compare to this year's results," said Sean de Guzman, manager of DWR's Snow Surveys and Water Supply Forecasting Unit.
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