Following the long and devastating drought that depleted the state's water reserves, California this year has seen heavy storms - and now boasts a historic snowpack. This week's snow measurement at Phillips Station, a site at 8000 feet in the Sierras near Lake Tahoe, indicates that the snowpack is over 160% of the norm. Chris Orrock of the California Department of Water Resources joins the podcast to talk about what this wealth of snow means for California's water reserves, flood dangers and implications for wildfires later in the year.
Following the long and devastating drought that depleted the state's water reserves, California this year has seen heavy storms - and now boasts a historic snowpack. This week's snow measurement at Phillips Station, a site at 8000 feet in the Sierras near Lake Tahoe, indicates that the snowpack is over 160% of the norm. Chris Orrock of the California Department of Water Resources joins the podcast to talk about what this wealth of snow means for California's water reserves, flood dangers and implications for wildfires later in the year.