Real-Time Daily California Snow Liquid Water Equivalent (LWE)

The first five thumbnails below link to large (2048x2048 pixels, ~1MB each) images portraying current snow sensor readings throughout California. These data are from the California Cooperative Snow Surveys through CDEC. The sixth thumbnail links to a movie of LWE for the current water year (~4MB).

The data and images are updated nightly. These data have not been checked for accuracy.

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Current snowpack readings:

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Change from previous day:

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Change from one month ago:

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Current LWE as a percentage of LWE one year ago:

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Current LWE as a percentage of climatology for the date:

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LWE Movie for current
Water Year:

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