Very dry January shuts off rain and snow, raising drought concerns
Like the 49ers fourth-quarter lead in Sunday’s NFC Championship game, California’s Sierra Nevada snowpack is steadily shrinking.
“This is the thing that a lot of us had feared,” said Andrew Schwartz, lead scientist at UC Berkeley’s Central Sierra Snow Lab, at Donner Summit near Lake Tahoe. “After those wonderful storms in December, the faucet just turned off. Whenever we were asked if those storms would end the drought, we said, ‘Yes, if we keep getting precipitation.’ But so far we haven’t.”
The good news: The big storms in December dumped 17 feet of new snow at Donner Summit, and boosted reservoir levels around the state. Lake Oroville, California’s second-largest reservoir, in Butte County, has risen 118 feet since early October and is now 46% full — about 80% of normal for this time of year.
On New Year’s Day, San Francisco had received 191% of its historical average rainfall for that date in the winter season. But Monday, that was down to 134%. Oakland fell from 219% to 152%. San Jose fell from 157% to 97%. And it was the same story in Southern California, where Los Angeles went from 257% of normal on Jan. 1 to 147% Monday.
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