{"id":2530,"date":"2015-04-02T00:54:27","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T04:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wetrocksdiving.com\/?p=2530"},"modified":"2020-03-02T21:36:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T02:36:36","slug":"faces-of-a-water-crisis-part-1-snowpack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wetrocksdiving.com\/?p=2530","title":{"rendered":"Images from a Water Crisis: Part 1 Snowpack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtesy of Yosemite National Park (and also a great illustration of the power of Project Baseline-style images)<\/p>\n

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We WISH this were an April Fools’ joke: April 1 snow surveys found that snowpack in the Merced drainage is 2% of average while the snowpack in the Tuolumne drainage is a whopping 7% of average. Since snow surveys began in 1931, there has always been snow present at every survey location on April 1; this year, half of the survey locations had no snow.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Pictured is the Wilma Lake ranger cabin (the survey site is nearby).<\/span><\/p>\n

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We WISH this were an April Fools’ joke: April 1 snow surveys found that snowpack in the Merced drainage is 2% of average…<\/p>\n

Posted by Yosemite National Park<\/a> on Wednesday, April 1, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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