The statewide snowpack is tied with 1952 as the biggest haul since official records began in 1950.
Mammoth Mountain has seen 668 inches of snow this winter, breaking a record set in 2010-2011. The mountain will be open to skiing through at least July.in California’s Sierra Nevada could top records, state officials said Monday, and significant flooding is expected when it melts and flows down from the mountains.its reservoirs are filling, with the snowpack yet to melt.
The water content of the statewide snowpack as reported by a network of automated sensors on Monday was 237% of average to date, said Sean de Guzman, water supply forecasting unit manager for the California Department of Water Resources. That is greater than any previous April reading since the sensor network was deployed in the mid-1980s, de Guzman said. Manual measurements on "snow courses" date back to 1910 and only the years 1952, 1969 and 1983 showed a statewide result greater than 200% of average in April.
The record 1952 measurement was also 237% of average, but there were fewer snow courses measured then and the addition of others over the years makes it difficult to compare across decades results with precision, according to de Guzman. Manual measurements continue to the present day, but weather and other dangers, including the threat of avalanches, have prevented access to some locations.
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