California snow drought ends in dramatic fashion, while other states still deal with shortage
CNN
Thanks to multiple atmospheric river events, average snowpack in California has gone from 18% to 98% in just two weeks.
"Increases in snowpack of this size are not common, but also not unprecedented," Julie Kalansky, deputy director of operations for the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), explained.
Kalansky pointed out previous studies have shown a jump on this scale can happen about twice every three years, but usually over the course of an entire winter, not just the month of December.
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