{"id":12299,"date":"2017-02-01T09:14:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T16:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/?p=12299"},"modified":"2017-02-01T09:14:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T16:14:11","slug":"even-after-epic-storms-drought-still-formidable-from-the-san-francisco-chronicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/02\/01\/even-after-epic-storms-drought-still-formidable-from-the-san-francisco-chronicle\/","title":{"rendered":"Even after epic storms, drought still formidable  &#8211; from the San Francisco Chronicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12300\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/snowfall.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12300\" src=\"http:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/snowfall-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Recent snowfall in the Sierra. Photo by Michael Macor, San Francisco Chronicle.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/snowfall-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/snowfall.jpg 920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12300\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recent snowfall in the Sierra.<br \/><em>Photo by Michael Macor, San Francisco Chronicle<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Peter Fimrite<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The blizzards that ravaged the Sierra Nevada in the past month wiped out more than a third of the California snowpack deficit that built up over five years of drought, a team of scientists said Monday, while encouraging state residents to continue conserving water.<\/p>\n<p>The storms deposited roughly 17.5 million acre-feet of frozen water in the Sierra, or 37 percent of what\u2019s called the \u201csnow water deficit\u201d in the state, according to a study by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/search\/?action=search&amp;channel=news&amp;inlineLink=1&amp;searchindex=gsa&amp;query=%22University+of+Colorado%22\">University of Colorado<\/a> and NASA\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/search\/?action=search&amp;channel=news&amp;inlineLink=1&amp;searchindex=gsa&amp;query=%22Jet+Propulsion+Laboratory%22\">Jet Propulsion Laboratory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis winter, from my viewpoint, dropped an impressive amount of snowfall and made a significant dent in the water deficit, but it certainly didn\u2019t come close to relieving the total deficit for the entire drought period,\u201d said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/search\/?action=search&amp;channel=news&amp;inlineLink=1&amp;searchindex=gsa&amp;query=%22Noah+Molotch%22\">Noah Molotch<\/a>, a research scientist at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/search\/?action=search&amp;channel=news&amp;inlineLink=1&amp;searchindex=gsa&amp;query=%22NASA+Laboratory%22\">NASA Laboratory<\/a> and director of the University of Colorado\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/search\/?action=search&amp;channel=news&amp;inlineLink=1&amp;searchindex=gsa&amp;query=%22Center+for+Water%22\">Center for Water<\/a>, Earth Science and Technology.<\/p>\n<p>The snow water deficit is defined as the amount of frozen water below what is normal for a period of time. California\u2019s average yearly deficit during the drought was 10.8 million acre-feet, according to the study, or 54 million acre-feet from 2011 to 2016, said Molotch, who led the study.<\/p>\n<p>One acre-foot of water is enough to cover an acre of land in a foot of water \u2014 generally enough to supply a single family with water for a year.<\/p>\n<p>The storms in January dumped enormous amounts of rain and snow, breaking records and filling almost every major reservoir. In the northern Sierra, more rain has already fallen this winter than during an entire average year. The water content of the snowpack across the Sierra is now about 180 percent of normal for this time of year.<\/p>\n<p>The heaping snow drifts prompted the government\u2019s Drought Monitor to classify 49 percent of California as free of drought last week, a recovery from the 5 percent figure a year ago. All of the Bay Area, except for a tiny portion of Santa Clara County, was drought-free, according to the federal index, as was the northern half of the state, from San Francisco to the Oregon border.<\/p>\n<p>The problem, Molotch said, is that California pumped huge amounts of groundwater to keep people and crops hydrated during the drought, depleting what is essentially a water savings account.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s pretty clear that we aren\u2019t going to be able to put water back into that savings account as fast as we were able to take it out,\u201d he said. \u201cFor three weeks\u2019 worth of snowfall it was pretty amazing, so there is reason for optimism, but one snowy winter will not be able to reverse multiple years of drought.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/news\/article\/Epic-storms-said-to-wipe-out-37-percent-of-10895016.php\">Link to story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By Peter Fimrite The blizzards that ravaged the Sierra Nevada in the past month wiped out more than a third of the California snowpack deficit that built up over five years of drought, a team of scientists said Monday, &hellip; 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