"Sierra snowpack accounts for 30 percent of the fresh water across the entire state of California, and the pack is currently at unprecedented levels for the month of December.
“We have gotten incredible amounts of snow over the last couple of weeks,” said CNN meteorologist Jennifer Gray.
As of December 27, statewide snowpack was standing at 153% of the average to date, and 50 percent of what is expected by April 1 (the end of the snow season).
“We have actual set records,” said Gray.
“This has been the snowiest December on record.”
According to the latest data compiled by UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab, this month’s snowpack now stands at over 202 inches (nearly 17 feet / 5.2 meters), accumulations that comfortably best the prior all-time record of 179 inches set back in the December of 1970.
Berkeley researchers said the snow was “deep and hard to get through,” and it took them 40 minutes to get to where the measurements are taken just 150 feet away from the lab’s front door.
Mother Nature continues to mock the catastrophists, including those ‘scientists’ that –just a few weeks ago– produced a study claiming that snow in the Sierras could be all-but gone in just a few short decades:
Should greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated, so the study goes, winters of low snow, or even no snow, could become a regular occurrence in as little as 35 years:
... Northern Hemisphere’s snow mass is now pushing approx. 350 Gigatons above the 1982-2012 average (as of Dec 27), according to the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), and accelerating" ...