FRESNO, CA (KMJ) -This year is tracking to be the wettest on record, according to the DWR.
On march 1st, the Department of Water Resources will hold this winter’s third manual snow survey at Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada.
The Phillips Snow Course has been measured each winter since 1941, it’s one of hundreds that will be traversed during a 10-day period around March 1st to determine the water content of the snowpack.
The Water Year 2017, runs from October 1st to September 30th,
All three regions the DWR monitors continuously for rainfall have had more than twice their average rainfall, this year.
The statewide snowpack’s water content is 188 percent of normal – tracking to be the wettest on record.
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