As temperatures rise, the state is expected to further climb out of drought conditions with the melting of the snowpack.
The Kings River, now flowing into Tulare Lake, a once great body of water in the southern Central Valley, re-emerging and filling again due to the recent series of major rain and heavy snow melt in the Sierra Nevada, is viewed on April 13, 2023, in Statford, California.
. This broke the record for the most snow for that time of year, which occurred in the 1982-1983 season.Map courtesy of the National Drought Mitigation Center The rainfall helped alleviate the state's drought. At the end of last year, on December 27, 28.33 percent of California was under the Drought Monitor's most severe condition,"exceptional drought." In the coming weeks, however, California is set to be inundated with meltwater from the snowpack, in what has been dubbed the"big melt."
"The big melt is now here," Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said in an online"office hours" sessionHe continued:"We said there would eventually be some week between about March and May when the rate of snowmelt dramatically increased, either due to a heat wave or late-season warm storm. I think this is probably that week now.
As snow in the Sierra Nevada melts and flows down the mountains into the valleys, it fills the empty reservoirs. However, if too much water descends at once, this can cause flooding. The recent record-breaking snowpack is thought to pose a flooding risk for
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