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The Central Sierra snow pack for the winter 2024/25 as of January 21st, 2025 is currently not looking good for a strong Spring runoff. To date: The foothills have received a quarter of the annual rainfall; not a drop of rain in January, 2025; the current snow pack at 7,000 foot is in inches as opposed to feet. Incoming storms are in the forecast on or after January 25th, 2025.

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As of January, 2025

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Same old cabin March, 2024

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On 1/21/2025 at 2:39 PM, HardPack said:

not a drop of rain in January, 2025

January 25, 2025 finally received a dusting of snow, hopefully opening the storm door.

January 31, 3025 atmospheric river inbound, forecasted to dump up to 4 inches of rain and 4 feet of snow above 6,500 feet within a 48 hours period; accompanied by high winds. (storm would drift to the north yielding less than 4 inches of snow).

February 6, 2025
The California Department of Water Resources conducted the second manual reading at Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada, finding that the snowpack has fallen well below average following an extremely dry January. The survey recorded 22.5 inches of snow depth and a snow water equivalent of 8 inches—just 46% of the historical average at that location.

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April 10,  2025

For all us placer miners the latest snow survey for the Central Sierras. Percentage match lower foothill rainfall totals of 72%.

From the local newspaper: Yosemite NP Survey conducted on April 1, 2025.
“Based on the water content of the snow, rangers conducting the April 1 survey discovered that the Tuolumne River basin was 72% of average and the Merced River basin was 75%.”

11 hours ago, Craig Peer said:

Most of the heavy rain stayed further north this year

During the peak years of the latest California drought years the Sierra experienced far less at 43%. This season the storm systems often split to the south and north avoiding the Central Sierra. The last storm dropped down from British Columbia pulling moisture off the Pacific resulting in late season low elevation snow. Curious to watch the Klamath salmon and steelhead response to the dam removals. Enjoy your stay.

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