The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service has released a map showing below-normal snowpack in Western Nevada along the Sierra for this time of year. Despite this, local meteorologist Tony Fuentes is hopeful that a series of March storms will bring the region back to normal levels. Fuentes predicts a progressive pattern of wetter and cooler conditions in the next two weeks, with three storms expected to help push the snowpack closer to average. Data from NRCS snow telemetry sites currently show snow water equivalent levels at 84 percent of median in the Lake Tahoe Basin, 82 percent in the Carson River Basin, and 84 percent in the Walker River Basin. Fuentes referred to this season as “a tale of two winters,” with Southern Nevada at 36 percent of median levels and Northern Nevada ranging from 115-143 percent of normal. Although the storms expected in March will not be as strong as winter storms, Fuentes anticipates each storm could bring a foot or more of snow to the mountains, helping to fill the current deficit in snowpack levels.
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