Frank Gehrke of the state Department of Water Resources was once again supplying some very positive news Monday regarding this year’s Lake Tahoe snow survey and what it means to previously draught-stricken California. Gehrke’s final snow survey of the season took place Monday morning at Phillips Station, a large field located near Echo Summitt off […]
Fred Gehrke
Sierra Nevada snowpack measures 136 percent of normal
Thanks to a number of sizable snow storms during the past two months, this was a Sierra Nevada snowpack survey that people were anticipating – instead of dreading. Frank Gehrke, chief of the California Cooperative Snow Surveys Program, said today that the Sierra Nevada snowpack water content measured 136 percent of normal. That snow total […]