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California Department of Water Resources
Chief Snow Surveyor for the California Department of Water Resources
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Frank Gehrke
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FROM Frank Gehrke
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California's drought: The beginning of the end? California is facing the Pineapple Express, a major storm this weekend and another next week, that is expected to bring six feet of snow and 12 inches of rain. We find out what that means for the drought.
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Is California's Snow Economy Melting? After three years of drought, California’s winter sports economy is in trouble. At Lake Tahoe, Bryan Allegretto blogs about conditions for skiing. He says residents are doing snow dances and holding "Pray for Snow" parties. Climate change, of course, is not confined to California — and it has different consequences in different parts of the world.
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Governor to Declare End to California's Drought Three years ago, former Governor Schwarzenegger declared a drought in California. Tomorrow, Governor Brown is expected to declare that it's over. The Department of Water Resources has measured the Sierra-Nevada snowpack at 159 percent of normal. Frank Gehrke is the Department's chief Snow Surveyer.
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Could Record-breaking Rainfall End California's Drought? One of the wettest Decembers in state history has left behind about twice the amount of water considered normal for this time of year in the snow pack high up in the Sierras. So come spring, a lot of water should come down from the mountains into the reservoirs of drought-plagued Southern California. We get a progress report from Frank Gehrke, chief snow surveyor for the California Department of Water Resources, and from Bill Patzert, a climatologist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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