{"id":221690,"date":"2026-03-16T05:59:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T05:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/221690\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T05:59:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T05:59:16","slug":"heat-wave-could-speed-up-californias-already-thin-snowpack-melt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/221690\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat wave could speed up California\u2019s already thin snowpack melt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This year\u2019s snow pack is on track to finish the season below average.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While the snow is sparse this season, California\u2019s major reservoirs are sitting at capacity and the entire state is still drought free.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials say the bigger concern will come if we have a second consecutive dry year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">OAKLAND, Calif. &#8211; This year\u2019s snow pack is on track to finish the season below average, but the California Department of Water Resources says it\u2019s not quite time to panic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Big picture view<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While the snow is sparse this season, California\u2019s major reservoirs are sitting at capacity and the entire state is still drought free, at least for now.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials say the bigger concern will come if we have a second consecutive dry year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What&#8217;s next<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A healthy snow pack typically melts out by the end of July, but this year\u2019s below average totals combined with this week\u2019s historic heat wave will likely accelerate the process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The final snow pack survey of the year is April 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief This year\u2019s snow pack is on track to finish the season below average. While the snow&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,44456,9,8,101342],"class_list":["post-221690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-department-of-water-resources","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-snow-pack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}