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While the short-term expectation is a less active and shortened recreation season, there may be a better chance of precipitation in late summer.

Lake Oroville has the potential to reach its full capacity of 900 feet, due to the high levels of snowfall from 2023 and 2024.

California’s peak average snowpack has decreased ad is melting fast than usual, causing concern over increased wildfire risk.

The Snow Survey and Water Supply Forecasting Program measures the annual snowpack volume in the Pacific Northwest, a critical water resource stored for uses such as agriculture and fisheries.

In a collaborative effort for better snow prediction, scientists are upgrading a well-known climate model to simulate sunlight reflection on snow.

Record snowfall has not been enough to offset groundwater losses amid long-term drying and a heightened demand for the resource.

After years of swinging extremes, state snowpack is at rare average of 110%, setting up good water savings account for year ahead.

A WWAO collaboration has published a new paper on how to use next-generation satellite snow data to improve seasonal water supply forecasts using machine learning.

Last month’s massive snowstorm in the Sierra Nevada followed a dry start to winter. Such extremes in precipitation may become the norm.

Resurrected for the first time in decades by an epic deluge of winter rain and snow, by spring the lake covered more than 100,000 acres, stretching over cotton, tomato and pistachio fields and miles of roads.