Hydrologists with the Natural Resources Conservation Services performed their final snowpack survey at the Mount Rose measuring site Monday.
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Inside a northern Utah warehouse, hydraulic engineers are trying to pinpoint what repairs will work best at the tallest dam in the U.S. for a spillway torn apart during heavy winter rains.
It's the first day of June and we're still talking about mountain snow in the Sierra.
Hydrography
Flooding some of our neighborhood bike paths and low lying areas, the flow rate of the Truckee in Reno is about three times more than average for this day.
Meteorology
This winter will go down on the record books as one of the biggest snow packs we've seen since they began taking records. On Monday, hydrologists were on the mountain taking the latest snow pack readings, and they are impressive.
For the last several years hydrologists have been hoping for a major "drought buster" of a winter and spring.
Nearly seven inches of snow fell at the Reno-Tahoe International Airport, Monday. That is a record for March 28 and the third highest total after March 15, since 1937.
The Desert Research Institute in Reno just launched a virtual fire research center that brings together scientists from different disciplines to work to study fires.
The second snow survey of 2016 is in the books, with the snowpack up to 125% of average. The January storms paid off, dropping 50 inches of snow to boost the snow depth to 104 inches at the Mt. Rose SNOTEL site.
The Sierra is off to a strong start, in terms of snowfall, which is 110% of average for this time of the winter. The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service conducted its first snow survey of the year, Monday, at the Mt. Rose SNOTEL site.