The first snowpack survey of the season was taken Wednesday in Phillips, showing the snowpack us at 136% of average with a water content of 16.3 inches.
“This is encouraging but not where we’d like to be,” said Frank Gehkre, the Chief Snow Surveyor for the California Department of Water Resources. “This is clearly much better than last year at this time.”
One year ago the survey showed the snowpack at 47% of average.