State water officials say the Sierra Nevada is experiencing its snowiest start to the winter season in a decade, thanks to a handful of storms that dropped several feet of snow.
This time last year, snow depths were reaching 150 percent of normal levels: a hopeful start to the season. That was until California was hit with the driest January, February and March on record."But I forewarned everyone around that time that it's really, really early in the snow season," he added.
A white Christmas is not enough to sustain what makes up one-third of California's annual water supply -- the snowpack needs to be built up all the way through April to ensure the state has enough mountain snow to slowly drip off into state reservoirs well into the dry months. It makes it challenging to plan for how much water the state will have in the upcoming year, said de Guzman.
And one good season of snow will likely not be enough to make up for the estimated two to three years of rain and snow that did not arrive in California's previous decade.
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