However, Giralte said travelers could expect chain controls or road closures across mountain ... wet snow. The Sierra Avalanche Center measures the risk of danger in the Sierra Nevada backcountry ...

A rare straight three years of average snowfall or better in the mountains means it's statistically more likely that a dry ...

Forest thinning in the central Sierra Nevada may boost water runoff during drought years, according to researchers at the ...

Areas of the Sierra Nevada above 7,000 feet elevation received 2 to 3 feet of snow between Sunday and Tuesday, Deutschendorf said, with even more snowfall at mountain crests. “The highest three ...

Along with improved supplies for agriculture and municipal water customers, increased water yields from thinner forests can ...

Governor Jerry Brown’s hiking boots were dry as he stood in a grassy meadow 6,800 feet high in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains. He should have been buried up to his eyeballs in snow at ...

Snow at the Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada mountains (California Department of Water Resources via Courthouse News) (CN) — For the third time in as many years, snowfall in California's Sierra ...