Great news, the recent onset of storms in the last week helped get our snowpack closer to average. We still could use a lot more but we will take what we can get based on how the winter has been.
Truckee Sun recently posted this article, here is an excerpt from it:
The Natural Resources Conservation Service decided to wait out the storm a few days so it could conduct its snow survey for this season on Monday at the Mount Rose site.
Hydrologist Jeff Anderson reported 67 percent of normal snowpack on Monday, up about 12 percent from before the storm went through.
“We saw a nice increase from this storm,” Anderson said.
This is the biggest storm western Nevada has seen since November, but since that storm produced a lot of rain, this storm yielded the highest snowpack. Tahoe Basin wide, there was a 12 percent bump in snowpack.