The Snowpack in the Californian Mountains Quadruples
![Satellite image of the snowpack in the Sierra mountains](/sites/default/files/styles/large_1/public/curata/6RKt6EGZ7aDMgtr.jpeg.webp?itok=SBP8_QTT)
Data from NASA's Airborne Snow Observatory shows that the snowpack in the Tuolumne Basin of the Sierra Nevada mountains is 1.5 cubic kilometers, which is more than the previous 4 years combined. Californians are surely enjoying the extra precipitation, as they have been in a drought for the last 5 years. The Airborne Snow Observatory uses a combination of LIDAR and Imaging Spectrometer fixed to a small plane to measure the snowpack in the mountains of California.