snowpack

On a sunny day in late September, Todd Olander was out in the fields of a 90-acre farm in Berthoud planting rows of barley. Typically, Olander would let the soil rest through the winter months, but in recent years he’s begun experimenting…

After a series of atmospheric rivers and cold weather hit California, this year’s snowpack was one of the biggest in history.“This year’s result will go down as one of the largest snowpack years on record in California,” Sean de Guzman,…

The huge snowpack that has blanketed the Sierra Nevada this winter has done more than end California’s drought and extend ski season. It’s also changing how Californians keep the lights on. With reservoirs full across the state,…

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. —  Signs of snowmelt-fueled deluge were everywhere in famed Yosemite Valley on Saturday as the normally placid Merced River surged over its banks, swamping roads, erasing swimming beaches, and turning…

After historic levels of rain and snow this winter season, California expects to fill 100% of water requests from cities and farms for the first time since 2006, the state Department of Water Resources announced Thursday.Because the…

UPPER KERN RIVER —  Imagine racing down a steep river of recently melted snow toward a roaring rapid. You’re sitting on the outside edge of an inflatable raft with a paddle in your hands, so you can’t hold onto anything else. All that’s…

California’s wet and wintry start to the year has resulted in perhaps the deepest snowpack recorded in more than 70 years, officials said Monday.The snowpack is so deep that it currently contains roughly 30 million acre-feet of water — or…

After years of extreme drought and dismal snowpack, California has had a remarkably wet winter and is now veering into record-setting territory for snowfall.As of Friday, the snowpack in the southern Sierra was at 286% of normal — the…

A remarkably wet winter has resulted in some of the deepest snowpack California has ever recorded, providing considerable drought relief and a glimmer of hope for the state’s strained water supply.Statewide snowpack Friday measured 190% of…

Rome — Venice has long been known for its perennial flooding, but now it's facing the opposite problem: Weeks of dry winter weather plaguing Italy's north have left the ancient city with low water and dry canals. Environmental…