Winter storms in the Sierra Nevada in March have increased the snowpack to 90% of normal, a good sign for California’s water supply, state officials announced.

In this paper and the accompanying map, C.C. Brossy and colleagues describe the location and activity of the previously uncharacterized Kern Canyon fault, an approx. 135-kilometer-long (~84 miles) ...

Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be how the continents formed, they say.

Two smaller systems are expected to pass through the Sierra Nevada ... California, said in an email to The Bee that the organization is hopeful the heavy snow could bring this year’s snowpack to ...

California’s snowpack made a solid rebound ahead of the summer months, thanks to a string of cold and wet storms that pounded the Sierra Nevada in ... average and 28% of normal for that date.

California’s snowpack was at 97% of normal levels, according to data from California Department of Water Resources, while the northern Sierra Nevada snowpack was at 113% of normal. The snowpack ...

The water in California’s mountain snowpack is just shy of average as spring begins, but a winter storm set to hit the Sierra Nevada in the ... or above, normal for this time of year,” said ...

Winter storms in the Sierra Nevada this month have boosted the snowpack to 90% of the normal, a good sign for California’s water supply, state officials said Friday. The Sierra snowpack has now ...