{"id":39130,"date":"2025-12-31T00:15:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/california-snowpack-gets-a-boost-from-series-of-december-downpours\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T00:15:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:15:48","slug":"california-snowpack-gets-a-boost-from-series-of-december-downpours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/california-snowpack-gets-a-boost-from-series-of-december-downpours\/","title":{"rendered":"California snowpack gets a boost from series of December downpours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Water stored as snow during the winter months feeds waterways in the summer and supplies cities and farms<\/p>\n<p>A series of December storms delivered a welcome boost to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/california\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California<\/a>\u2019s snowpack, scientists said on Tuesday in a closely watched assessment of the state\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/water\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">water<\/a> resources for the year ahead.<\/p>\n<p>The snowpack survey recorded a snow depth of 24in (61cm), said Angelique Fabbiani-Leon, state hydrometeorologist at the California department of water resources\u2019 snow surveys and water supply forecasting unit. The survey was conducted at the Phillips station in the Sierra Nevada, a mountain range that covers the eastern part of the state.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/30\/california-snowpack-water\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water stored as snow during the winter months feeds waterways in the summer and supplies cities and farms A series of December storms delivered a welcome boost to California\u2019s snowpack, scientists said on Tuesday in a closely watched assessment of the state\u2019s water resources for the year ahead. The snowpack survey recorded a snow depth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 13:48:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}