Study Finds Snowpack in California’s Sierra Nevada to Be Lowest in 500 Years
Sep 14, 2015 at 12:00am
The paper, published on Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change, used tree-ring data from centuries-old blue oaks to provide historical context for the mountain range’s diminished snowfall. As of April 1, the snowpack levels were just 5 percent of their 50-year historical average.