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Sean de Guzman, manager of the California Department of Water Resources Snow Surveys and Water Supply Forecasting Unit, inserts an snow survey pole into the snow during the final snow survey of the 2023 season at Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Assisting in the survey is Anthony Burdock and Jordan Thoennes, both of the Department of Water Resources. The survey was held approximately 90 miles east of Sacramento off U.S. Highway 50 in El Dorado County. Photo taken May 1, 2023. (Ken James / California Department of Water Resources)Huge snowpack has begun to melt, but most of it -- and flood risk in the San Joaquin Valley and Tulare Basin -- remains
Originally published at Paul Rogers