By Christine Souza, Ag Alert Unlike early 2023, when nonstop atmospheric river storms built a deep Sierra Nevada snowpack, replenished depleted reservoirs and flooded parts of California, snowfall and rain is sharply diminished so far this year. But state water...
By Alan Riquelmy, Courthouse News The drive to the UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains shouldn’t have been easy this week. Snow in late December at the Soda Springs facility, at 6,800 feet, should have...
California’s water year, which began October 1, is off to a dry start with below average precipitation in October and November From the Department of Water Resources: Today, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) announced an initial State Water Project...
By Peter Hecht, Ag Alert California reservoirs are brimming at historic levels after a water year described as akin to a “miracle.” Lake Shasta, the largest reservoir in the federal Central Valley Project that provides water to over 3 million...
This periodically recurring atmospheric phenomenon in recent years has become just too unreliable to count on. By Robert Krier, Voice of San Diego El Niño, once feared and nearly revered, has lost cachet. It poses the threat of massive, damaging...
