Snowpack in southern Sierra hits all-time record levels. How deep is that?

After years of extreme drought and dismal snowpack, California has had a remarkably wet winter and is now veering into record-setting territory for snowfall.

As of Friday, the snowpack in the southern Sierra Nevada was at 286% of normal — the highest figure ever, easily eclipsing the region’s benchmark of 263% set in 1969.

In a tweet, the UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab said this year recently surpassed 1982-83 as the second-snowiest on record since measurements began in 1946.

“We’ll get closer over the next week” to the top spot on the list, the lab said. Its measured season total was 677 inches of snow, or 56.4 feet, so far.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-24/snowpack-in-southern-sierra-at-all-time-record