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State officials and scientists are warning of strained water resources throughout the state and an earlier-than-usual fire season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/2000348/heat-wave-will-blast-more-bay-area-temperature-records-friday\">atypical heat\u003c/a> was part of a larger wave of warm temperatures that swept through the continental U.S during March. 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"content": "\u003cp>Mona Epstein thought the violent shaking that woke her was just a nightmare. But when she checked her phone, she saw that an \u003ca href=\"https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75331762/executive\">earthquake \u003c/a>had struck the San Ramon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Earthquakes have infiltrated my dreams,” Epstein said. “It’s really nerve-wracking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Epstein lives in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1999633/scientists-say-san-ramons-latest-earthquake-swarm-is-normal-but-residents-are-on-edge\">San Ramon\u003c/a>, a typically quiet Bay Area suburb that has been jolted by 162 earthquakes of a magnitude 2.0 or higher since November. Three dozen small tremors shook her home \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071884/earthquake-swarm-in-san-ramon-is-felt-around-bay-area-with-over-20-small-quakes\">in early February\u003c/a>, popping open cabinet doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just won’t stop,” Epstein said. “It’s like the new normal, I’ve become accustomed to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seismologists call the sequence of small earthquakes a “swarm” and say it is normal for this part of the Bay Area, which lies atop a spiderweb of active faults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They don’t know exactly how or why they’re happening, or whether they are occurring on a major fault — which may hint at the risk of a larger earthquake coming — or on one of the many smaller cracks nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2000504\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2000504\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/faults-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/faults-5.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/faults-5-2000x1500.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/faults-5-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/faults-5-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/faults-5-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/faults-5-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Ramon sits atop a complex network of faults, making it prone to earthquake swarms. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s why in mid-March, a group of United States Geological Survey seismologists and volunteers buried a network of 78 blue and grey toaster-sized seismometers across San Ramon and Danville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have any preconceived notions, I just want to find out what’s going on,” said Rufus Catchings, a research geophysicist with USGS, who is leading the work. “The data will hopefully tell us a lot more detail, like which faults are involved and whether earthquakes are happening on major faults.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Catchings said a swarm on a smaller fault is “unlikely to generate a very large earthquake. 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"content": "\u003cp>Danielle Mieler spread out maps of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/alameda\">Alameda\u003c/a> across a concrete table at a park on a bluff overlooking the city of nearly 80,000. A ferry from San Francisco approached the island’s sandy western shore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each map highlighted a different flood risk — one showed low-lying areas in blue and green, another projected sea level rise in blocks of purple. In one of the more ominous maps, Alameda appeared in red, indicating areas where saturated soil could liquify during an earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mieler, the city’s sustainability and resilience manager, pointed to a grey stretch of land in the city’s center — the only area her team does not expect to plan protections from future flooding, she said. Still, because Alameda is an island, flooding will affect all residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of a lot when we think about all that needs to be done, and we’ve started to wrap our heads around that,” Mieler said. “We need to raise the shoreline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city tasked Mieler and her team with completing an adaptation plan for Alameda, including solutions, by early 2028. They are considering lining beaches with boulders to slow waves, raising earthen and concrete barriers to keep water from entering neighborhoods and even letting the bay reclaim parts of the island. They’re also planning nature-based solutions, such as restoring marshes and experimenting with oyster reefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like a little testbed,” for potential fixes that cities around the Bay Area could use, Mieler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2000389\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2000389\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-13-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-13-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Danielle Mieler looks out at Alameda Beach in Alameda on March 19, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983858/alameda-the-island-that-almost-wasnt\">most populous island\u003c/a> isn’t trying to adapt on its own. Alameda is among the first to align with a state-led \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016813/bay-area-now-has-first-ever-regional-sea-level-rise-plan\">sea-level rise plan\u003c/a>, mandating that every coastal city and county in the Bay Area develop plans to address sea level rise. The city is collaborating with Oakland and the Port of Oakland on a plan to protect the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda is a strong case study for the Bay Area, climate scientists said, because it will need to use every tool possible to protect its 360-degree waterfront. But they caution city planners against overhardening shorelines and encourage them to embrace living with water where possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alameda feels different because it’s surrounded, but if you unspool it and make it linear, it’s the same challenge that’s faced by any other bayfront community,” said Mark Stacey, a UC Berkeley professor of civil and environmental engineering.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘It’s all a little bit man-made’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Alameda wasn’t always an island, and its non-island portion, called Bay Farm Island, ironically, was once only an island at high tide. In 1902, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers finished dredging a canal between Alameda and Oakland. Later in the century, developers filled in the marshy peninsula connecting the Bay Farm area to the shore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s all a bit man-made,” Mieler said. “We like to think that this is what Alameda is, but this is not what Alameda was 100 years ago, and it’s not what it’s going to be in 100 years either.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2000394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2000394\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-17-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-17-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-17-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-17-KQED-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-17-KQED-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boulders line sections of Alameda Beach in order to reduce the erosion of the waterfront on March 20, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The island is relatively flat, with its highest elevation just 39 feet above sea level. In addition, much of the island was built on fill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alameda is at the forefront of sea level rise hazards,” said Kevin Befus, associate professor at the University of Arkansas Department of Geosciences. “If we left things as is and sea levels were higher, large areas of the island would flood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has experienced about 8 inches of sea level rise over the past century. As the world continues to warm due to fossil fuel burning, the bay could rise about a foot by midcentury and more than 6 feet by the end of the century, according to the state’s latest \u003ca href=\"https://opc.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/California-Sea-Level-Rise-Guidance-2024-508.pdf\">sea level rise guidance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda can expect water from all directions: rising seas, torrential downpours, storm-driven surges that intensify high tides and groundwater pushed upwards as soils become saturated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2000441\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1998px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2000441 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-16_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1998\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-16_qed.jpg 1998w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-16_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-16_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-16_qed-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1998px) 100vw, 1998px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mariner Square in Alameda as seen from Jack London Square in Oakland on March 20, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>People living on the island, which spans more than 10 square miles, saw a preview of that wetter future in January during \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068644/marin-county-looked-like-a-lagoon-after-king-tides-heavy-rain\">abnormally high king tides\u003c/a>. Waves crashed into dunes, filling Shore Line Drive. Runners splashed through brackish water pouring onto trails, and water gushed from at least one storm drain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flooding mirrors what daily tides will look like by midcentury, and Mieler said, the spots that “flooded were places that we know need to be addressed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the city took a do-nothing approach, Mieler said, water could engulf streets, homes, businesses, and the Posey and Webster Street tubes that connect traffic to Oakland and the mainland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2000393\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2000393\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-03-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-03-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-03-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-03-KQED-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-03-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cars enter the Posey Tube in Alameda on March 20, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But water from above is not the only issue. Patrick Barnard, research director for the UC Santa Cruz Center for Coastal Climate Resilience, said about 60% of Alameda’s groundwater is already close to the surface — without further sea level rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know there are lots of issues in Alameda, but bottom line, it’s effectively ground zero for groundwater hazards in the Bay,” Barnard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kris May, who has lived in Alameda since 2011, knows this firsthand. She’s already dealing with rising groundwater in her home, where water pushes through cracks in her basement floor. She installed two sump pumps to remove it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2000399\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2000399\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-09_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-09_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-09_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-09_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-09_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kris May examines the cracks in the basement floor of her home in Alameda on March 18, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Our sump pumps work great, but the water keeps finding new ways to get in,” May said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>May is one of the scientists the city has hired to understand flood risk and develop solutions. She’s the founder of Pathways Climate Institute, a San Francisco-based consulting firm, and has conducted extensive research on groundwater rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sea level rise is pushing that baseline groundwater table up and reducing that kind of sponge capacity,” May said. “It’s a hazard that is getting worse and worse over time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘That’s one of my nightmares’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To protect this island from the nastiest effects of the altered climate, the community will need to decide what it values enough to save.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is that thing that gives that sense of place, and how can that be saved?” Stacey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2000386\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2000386\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-06-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People enjoy Alameda Beach in Alameda on March 20, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of those places could be Alameda Beach on the city’s west side, where hundreds \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12076391\">gather on hot days\u003c/a>. Stacey said that if the city decides the beach is worth preserving, planners could study how to retain sand during storms and develop \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedaca.gov/Departments/Planning-Building-and-Transportation/Sustainability-and-Resilience/South-Shore-Adaptation-Project\">other solutions\u003c/a>. But he noted the beach is human-made, and that preservation may require “some retreat” so it can migrate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Alameda residents like Alex Spehr, protecting outdoor spaces is important. “I like our beaches,” Spehr said, but acknowledged that if “our beaches all wash away, at some point, you can’t just keep dumping sand to replace them. Preserving our habitat is important.”[aside postID=news_11983858 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/AlamedaCanal-672x372.jpg']On the city’s east side, along a channel facing Oakland, seawalls and levees may be the best option. Fixes will require cooperation from businesses and private property owners. The traffic tunnels onto the island are also at risk of flooding, and May said a sea wall and levee will likely protect them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You would not want to be driving through that tube during a flood when water can come in,” May said. “That’s one of my nightmares.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planners want to restore wetlands around the island and enhance eelgrass beds. They have also proposed boosting oyster habitat by constructing reefs made from discarded restaurant shells, which chickens clean, cured in the sun and then dropped into the bay to attract larvae.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wild oysters smell that calcium from miles away, and they come running,” said Jonathan DeLong, executive director of Alameda’s REAP Climate Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the biggest hurdle ahead for the island city is securing funding to pay for fixes, especially since federal dollars for climate-related projects are scarce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2000384\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2000384\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-04-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A broken fence sits atop a collapsed dune at Alameda Beach in Alameda on March 20, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s gonna be a big dollar amount,” Mieler said, noting that protecting the island will likely cost billions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mieler said she remains hopeful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a multi-generational problem,” she said. “We’re trying to start early so that we can be thoughtful in our planning and leave the space for future generations to come make their own decisions about what solutions look like and to respond to conditions as they unfold.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeeeKhyuk-_odJH80iw5eAlpLBF-YWJnOi_Yqs4BEN9fY1YJA/viewform?usp=publish-editor\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: A previous version of this story misstated the island of Alameda’s size as about 23 square miles. It has 10.6 square miles of land and 12.1 square miles of water.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of a lot when we think about all that needs to be done, and we’ve started to wrap our heads around that,” Mieler said. “We need to raise the shoreline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city tasked Mieler and her team with completing an adaptation plan for Alameda, including solutions, by early 2028. They are considering lining beaches with boulders to slow waves, raising earthen and concrete barriers to keep water from entering neighborhoods and even letting the bay reclaim parts of the island. They’re also planning nature-based solutions, such as restoring marshes and experimenting with oyster reefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like a little testbed,” for potential fixes that cities around the Bay Area could use, Mieler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2000389\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2000389\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-13-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-13-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Danielle Mieler looks out at Alameda Beach in Alameda on March 19, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983858/alameda-the-island-that-almost-wasnt\">most populous island\u003c/a> isn’t trying to adapt on its own. Alameda is among the first to align with a state-led \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016813/bay-area-now-has-first-ever-regional-sea-level-rise-plan\">sea-level rise plan\u003c/a>, mandating that every coastal city and county in the Bay Area develop plans to address sea level rise. The city is collaborating with Oakland and the Port of Oakland on a plan to protect the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda is a strong case study for the Bay Area, climate scientists said, because it will need to use every tool possible to protect its 360-degree waterfront. But they caution city planners against overhardening shorelines and encourage them to embrace living with water where possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alameda feels different because it’s surrounded, but if you unspool it and make it linear, it’s the same challenge that’s faced by any other bayfront community,” said Mark Stacey, a UC Berkeley professor of civil and environmental engineering.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘It’s all a little bit man-made’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Alameda wasn’t always an island, and its non-island portion, called Bay Farm Island, ironically, was once only an island at high tide. In 1902, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers finished dredging a canal between Alameda and Oakland. Later in the century, developers filled in the marshy peninsula connecting the Bay Farm area to the shore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s all a bit man-made,” Mieler said. “We like to think that this is what Alameda is, but this is not what Alameda was 100 years ago, and it’s not what it’s going to be in 100 years either.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2000394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2000394\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-17-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-17-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-17-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-17-KQED-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-17-KQED-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boulders line sections of Alameda Beach in order to reduce the erosion of the waterfront on March 20, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The island is relatively flat, with its highest elevation just 39 feet above sea level. In addition, much of the island was built on fill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alameda is at the forefront of sea level rise hazards,” said Kevin Befus, associate professor at the University of Arkansas Department of Geosciences. “If we left things as is and sea levels were higher, large areas of the island would flood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has experienced about 8 inches of sea level rise over the past century. As the world continues to warm due to fossil fuel burning, the bay could rise about a foot by midcentury and more than 6 feet by the end of the century, according to the state’s latest \u003ca href=\"https://opc.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/California-Sea-Level-Rise-Guidance-2024-508.pdf\">sea level rise guidance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda can expect water from all directions: rising seas, torrential downpours, storm-driven surges that intensify high tides and groundwater pushed upwards as soils become saturated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2000441\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1998px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2000441 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-16_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1998\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-16_qed.jpg 1998w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-16_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-16_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-16_qed-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1998px) 100vw, 1998px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mariner Square in Alameda as seen from Jack London Square in Oakland on March 20, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>People living on the island, which spans more than 10 square miles, saw a preview of that wetter future in January during \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068644/marin-county-looked-like-a-lagoon-after-king-tides-heavy-rain\">abnormally high king tides\u003c/a>. Waves crashed into dunes, filling Shore Line Drive. Runners splashed through brackish water pouring onto trails, and water gushed from at least one storm drain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flooding mirrors what daily tides will look like by midcentury, and Mieler said, the spots that “flooded were places that we know need to be addressed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the city took a do-nothing approach, Mieler said, water could engulf streets, homes, businesses, and the Posey and Webster Street tubes that connect traffic to Oakland and the mainland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2000393\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2000393\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-03-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-03-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-03-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-03-KQED-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-03-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cars enter the Posey Tube in Alameda on March 20, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But water from above is not the only issue. Patrick Barnard, research director for the UC Santa Cruz Center for Coastal Climate Resilience, said about 60% of Alameda’s groundwater is already close to the surface — without further sea level rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know there are lots of issues in Alameda, but bottom line, it’s effectively ground zero for groundwater hazards in the Bay,” Barnard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kris May, who has lived in Alameda since 2011, knows this firsthand. She’s already dealing with rising groundwater in her home, where water pushes through cracks in her basement floor. She installed two sump pumps to remove it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2000399\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2000399\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-09_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-09_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-09_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-09_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-09_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kris May examines the cracks in the basement floor of her home in Alameda on March 18, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Our sump pumps work great, but the water keeps finding new ways to get in,” May said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>May is one of the scientists the city has hired to understand flood risk and develop solutions. 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Stacey said that if the city decides the beach is worth preserving, planners could study how to retain sand during storms and develop \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedaca.gov/Departments/Planning-Building-and-Transportation/Sustainability-and-Resilience/South-Shore-Adaptation-Project\">other solutions\u003c/a>. But he noted the beach is human-made, and that preservation may require “some retreat” so it can migrate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Alameda residents like Alex Spehr, protecting outdoor spaces is important. “I like our beaches,” Spehr said, but acknowledged that if “our beaches all wash away, at some point, you can’t just keep dumping sand to replace them. Preserving our habitat is important.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>On the city’s east side, along a channel facing Oakland, seawalls and levees may be the best option. Fixes will require cooperation from businesses and private property owners. The traffic tunnels onto the island are also at risk of flooding, and May said a sea wall and levee will likely protect them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You would not want to be driving through that tube during a flood when water can come in,” May said. “That’s one of my nightmares.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planners want to restore wetlands around the island and enhance eelgrass beds. They have also proposed boosting oyster habitat by constructing reefs made from discarded restaurant shells, which chickens clean, cured in the sun and then dropped into the bay to attract larvae.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wild oysters smell that calcium from miles away, and they come running,” said Jonathan DeLong, executive director of Alameda’s REAP Climate Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the biggest hurdle ahead for the island city is securing funding to pay for fixes, especially since federal dollars for climate-related projects are scarce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2000384\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2000384\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-04-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/260320-ALAMEDA-ISLAND-MD-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A broken fence sits atop a collapsed dune at Alameda Beach in Alameda on March 20, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s gonna be a big dollar amount,” Mieler said, noting that protecting the island will likely cost billions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mieler said she remains hopeful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a multi-generational problem,” she said. “We’re trying to start early so that we can be thoughtful in our planning and leave the space for future generations to come make their own decisions about what solutions look like and to respond to conditions as they unfold.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe\n src='https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeeeKhyuk-_odJH80iw5eAlpLBF-YWJnOi_Yqs4BEN9fY1YJA/viewform?usp=publish-editor?embedded=true'\n title='https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeeeKhyuk-_odJH80iw5eAlpLBF-YWJnOi_Yqs4BEN9fY1YJA/viewform?usp=publish-editor'\n width='760' height='500'\n frameborder='0'\n marginheight='0' marginwidth='0'>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: A previous version of this story misstated the island of Alameda’s size as about 23 square miles. It has 10.6 square miles of land and 12.1 square miles of water.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The snowpack is melting so fast across the Sierra Nevada that ski resorts in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12075338/lake-tahoe-by-train-california-zephyr-ski-bus-sports-basement-amtrak-capitol-corridor-weather-traffic-delays\">Tahoe area\u003c/a> are farming snow to deepen the slush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, state officials are worried the melting snowpack could lead to troubling drought and early wildfire conditions. Climate experts said the truncated winter and an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/2000348/heat-wave-will-blast-more-bay-area-temperature-records-friday\">early spring heat wave\u003c/a> are exactly what they’ve predicted in a warming world. California has been baked all week with temperatures 20 to 30 degrees above normal for this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The monthly record has already been completely smashed for South Lake Tahoe,” said Christopher Johnston, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Reno office. The town set a new March record of 76 degrees on Wednesday, 5 degrees warmer than the previous record set in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Online, skiers and snowboarders have bemoaned their less-than-ideal trips down the Tahoe slopes. “It was like skiing on a slushee,” wrote one commenter on \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/laketahoe/comments/1rxmj39/skiing_this_weekend/\">Reddit\u003c/a>. “I’m putting a wrap on it for the season,” complained \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/snowboarding/comments/1rwol8m/last_weeks_conditions_at_northstar_tahoe_this_is/\">another\u003c/a>. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/palisadestahoe/comments/1rsfy03/hows_the_snow/\">third wrote\u003c/a> what meteorologists have alluded to this week: “It’s summer already, bring your mountain bike.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of snow has caused ski resorts, including Palisades Tahoe, to close runs. Patrick Lacey, the resort’s public relations manager, said that it plans to keep operating through April and that 67% of its terrain remains open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1978341\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1978341 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2022/02/KJ1_0474-1-e1774039477229.jpg\" alt=\"An apline creek running over a dark greanite slabe with white snow to the left and right. Green evergreens and white snow covered mountain peaks in the background.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snow melts into a creek flowing into the South Fork American River at Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada, Feb. 1, 2022. \u003ccite>(Kenneth James/California Department of Water Resources)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Mid-morning is the best time to ski, and by afternoon it’s slushy,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnston said temperatures will cool by 5 to 10 degrees this weekend, but the ridge could rebuild early next week, bringing back the heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We might flirt with record highs again next week,” Johnston said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s bad news for California’s snowpack, which sits at \u003ca href=\"https://snow.water.ca.gov/\">35% of the April 1 average \u003c/a>and is quickly declining by more than a percentage point each day. Although that melt rate is cause for hand-wringing, state climatologist Michael Anderson said \u003ca href=\"https://cdec.water.ca.gov/resapp/RescondMain\">California’s reservoirs\u003c/a>, where summer drinking and irrigation water is banked in manmade lakes, are generally in good condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the dismal snowpack numbers, it might seem surprising that California recorded above-average precipitation this winter, but warm winter temperatures meant that much of it fell as rain, even in the mountains.[aside postID=news_12076459 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-35-BL-KQED.jpg']Anderson said the season is “playing out pretty much as we expect in a warmer world.” He means human-caused climate change has altered the atmosphere enough that it’s bringing about fewer but “more punctuated” warm storms that don’t add to the snowpack and, in some cases, melt it prematurely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This year fits that bill,” Anderson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the flip side, the heat wave is acting like a giant hair dryer blowing across the Sierra, rapidly melting snow. The northern part of the range is at 18% of the April 1 average, the central part is at 40%, and the southern part is at 57% of normal for this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Schwartz, director of the UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab, said melt rates are faster at his station northwest of Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been losing about 8% to 13% of our snowpack per day, and that’s without the highest temperatures of this heat dome,” Schwartz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwartz characterizes this winter as ridiculously warm and said the Sierra Nevada is in the middle of “a warm snow drought.” The range saw two bigger storms this year, boosting the snowpack, but the several feet of snow that accumulated melted prematurely with rain and warmth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This year represents what climate change will be showing us in the decades to come,” Schwartz said. Over the next couple of decades, he expects an accelerated shift toward warmer rain-driven seasons that could peak in the 2050s, before “becoming more rain-dominated here in the High Sierra and the Central Sierra.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2000410\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2000410 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/BigBearSnowSkiGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/BigBearSnowSkiGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/BigBearSnowSkiGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/BigBearSnowSkiGetty-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/BigBearSnowSkiGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People ski and snowboard as snow melts at Bear Mountain Ski Resort on Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025, in Big Bear, California. \u003ccite>(Eric Thayer/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Benjamin Hatchett, an earth system scientist at Colorado State University, has a term for these early-season stretches with hot days and warm nights: “\u003ca href=\"https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7576317/v1\">snow-eater heat waves\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He studies how they can initially lead to flooding and, later in the summer, result in problems with irrigation availability. These types of heat waves usually last up to five days and can double the melting rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This heat wave is a textbook example of a snow-eater heat wave,” Hatchett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As human activities drive climate change, such heat waves are growing in scale and occurring earlier in the season, he found. “Without a long-term warming trend, these events were previously either unlikely or statistically impossible. We kind of unlock that possibility,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the heat wave is over, and climate scientists study it, he’s almost certain they will find that anthropogenic warming played a big role in the warm-up.[aside postID=science_2000348 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/GettyImages-2266506019-2000x1332.jpg']“It’s an iconic event,” Hatchett said. “It’s something that we should expect, and when snow-eater heat waves happen, they’re going to be worse, and that increases the probability of all of these different negative outcomes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the rapid snowmelt also means an increase in fire risk, as the forests have an extra month and a half of drying time across the range, Schwartz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think most of us anticipate kind of a rough fire year,” Schwartz said. “We’re going to have drier fuels for fires as we go into the summer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwartz also expects \u003ca href=\"https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?CA\">California’s drought map\u003c/a> to light up in yellow, orange and red — representing dry soil, brush and trees — as spring turns into summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if it’s a little bit of creep on that drought index map, it’s going to happen,” Schwartz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While reservoir levels are above average for this time of year, water experts such as Newsha Ajami, the founding director of the Risk Resilience Recovery Program at Stanford’s Doerr School of Sustainability, are considering alternative ways to capitalize on early runoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Can we store some of the water we’ve released from the reservoirs that might not be needed right now in different formats, like groundwater basins?” Ajami said. “So then later, if the reservoir levels go down, we can tap into that water source.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Ajami considers this early-season heat wave and rapid snowmelt alongside the past 10 winters, which ranged from super wet to very dry, it shows that California cannot rely on an abundance of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know what’s going to happen next year, and we need to manage the system better, as individuals and as communities,” Ajami said. “We actually do need to go back to the drawing board and think about all these pieces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeeeKhyuk-_odJH80iw5eAlpLBF-YWJnOi_Yqs4BEN9fY1YJA/viewform?usp=publish-editor\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>California \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1944241/lead-ammunition-is-now-banned-for-hunting-wildlife-in-california\">condors\u003c/a> are the largest land bird in North America — with wingspans of almost 10 feet. The vultures look and sound otherworldly, with good reason. They are a Pleistocene-era animal, survivors of the last ice age. These incredible \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/quest/55378/with-condors-on-the-brink-california-considers-a-lead-bullet-ban-for-hunters\">scavengers\u003c/a> — weighing up to 25 pounds — used to range from California to Florida and from Canada to Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the last century, their populations crashed. The federal government listed them as endangered in 1967, and in 1982, only 23 condors survived worldwide. A substantial conservation campaign in California followed, spanning several decades. Now there are more than 600 alive, but they aren’t doing as well as scientists expected, even after the state banned hunters from using lead bullets, fragments of which the birds swallow when they eat animal carcasses left behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-69617-4\">research published Wednesday\u003c/a> explains the mystery of why, despite many protections, the birds are still struggling. The answer, the scientists believe, is due to condors changing their behavior to act like more wild birds. The birds are foraging further afield from sites where conservationists leave food and finding animals to eat that are sometimes shot with lead. More lead-laced animal carcasses may be available, they believe, due to the expansion of feral pigs causing a nuisance in Central California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Condors are very long-lived, so very small changes in their survival rate can make big differences on whether or not they will go extinct or not go extinct,” said Myra Finkelstein, an environmental toxicologist at UC Santa Cruz and senior author on the paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goal is that for us to stop releasing captive-bred birds, and currently right now, we still have to. The population is declining unless we release captive-bred birds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finkelstein published research in 2012 that showed the lead poisoning from ammunition was preventing the condor’s recovery. The findings built support for California to pass a lead bullet ban for hunting wildlife in 2013, which fully phased into effect in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the law passed, Finkelstein was very excited. “Not only does lead poison California condors, it will poison any scavenging species, and there’s no level of lead exposure that’s known to be without long-term effects for young kids. So [no lead] is just a win-win all around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2000337\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2000337\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/kqed_for_myra_story_966_chases_747_8076.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/kqed_for_myra_story_966_chases_747_8076.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/kqed_for_myra_story_966_chases_747_8076-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/kqed_for_myra_story_966_chases_747_8076-768x960.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/kqed_for_myra_story_966_chases_747_8076-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/kqed_for_myra_story_966_chases_747_8076-1638x2048.jpg 1638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California condor 966 Pixchi chases 747 Boeing through the late afternoon skies above Pinnacles National Park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Tim Huntington)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But in the years that followed the ban, she and her colleagues continued their research, but they did not see the lead mortality decrease as expected. In fact, it worsened. The amount of lead in the blood of Central California condors actually jumped after full implementation of the ban. This, on the face, made no sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t think that people were out there using more lead than they were before the ban,” she said. In fact, every indication from the hunting community was that people were largely, albeit not entirely, complying with the ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finkelstein said her research team felt under some pressure to be able to provide an explanation. If they can’t explain the cause, other states and countries could look at California’s example and conclude that “lead bullet bans don’t work to protect endangered species, we shouldn’t bother with them,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately, condor researchers in California are lucky in that they have extremely robust datasets. While most biologists study what they hope is a representative subset, Finkelstein and colleagues have access to three decades of near-daily data on every single condor in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We use every single bird,” Finkelstein said. “We have all the blood lead levels that have been collected. And we have all of the outreach that has been done. We have so much data. And with all these data, we were able to start looking at what could be influencing condor lead risk. Why is it worse now than it was five years ago?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They noticed two things: one, that an individual condor’s behavior was highly linked with how soon it died of lead poisoning. The birds still depend on the lead-free carcasses left by conservationists at certain sites. But more and more birds are venturing further afield, presumably picking up lead contamination in the carcasses they find. But where would that increased lead be coming from?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combining data from deer hunts, pig hunts and elsewhere, Finkelstein said they found, “lo and behold, what explained the problem in central California was an increase in pigs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feral pigs have become a nuisance, with most living on private land. They damage crops and vineyards and are a health hazard; they carry viruses, bacteria and parasites that can affect humans, pets, and livestock. Pig hunting tripled after 2008, and doubled again after 2019. Sometimes they’re killed without a tag, which is like a permission slip from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to kill an animal. It’s impossible to know how often.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2000338\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2000338\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/kqed_for_myra_story_966_portrait_8278-NR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/kqed_for_myra_story_966_portrait_8278-NR.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/kqed_for_myra_story_966_portrait_8278-NR-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/kqed_for_myra_story_966_portrait_8278-NR-768x960.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/kqed_for_myra_story_966_portrait_8278-NR-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/kqed_for_myra_story_966_portrait_8278-NR-1638x2048.jpg 1638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California condor 966 Pixchi at Pinnacles National Park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Tim Huntington)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But it doesn’t take much of an increase in lead on the landscape to affect condors. The paper, published in \u003cem>Nature Communications\u003c/em>, explains that fewer than 10 lead-contaminated feedings per year are enough to explain this increase in lead exposure seen in California’s condors. And a condor can be taken down by fewer feedings than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think people don’t understand that just one feeding, one tiny little sliver of lead can kill a condor — and condors are supposed to live 60 plus years,” Finkelstein said. “They never lived that long. We have a bunch of teenagers flying around out there, you know? Very few adults … It’s just tragic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the research team found that the lead ammunition bans are effective. Without them, condor mortality would be much worse. And, while California condors are not self-sustaining at the moment, they are almost there. A small additional decrease in lead, and they could get there. Interestingly, deer hunting appears to have a protective effect on condors. Deer hunters are overwhelmingly abiding by the lead ammunition ban, and so entrails left over from a deer being dressed in the field provide a safe meal for a condor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We only need to lower lead mortality by 1%, and the condor population is expected to become self-sustaining. Now that to me sounds like we’re on the verge of success here,” said Kelly Sorenson of the Ventana Wildlife Society, who has led major recovery efforts for condors across central California. Sorenson did not participate in the study. “And hunters and ranchers are being a part of that by switching to non-lead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ventana Wildlife Society, in addition to doing outreach and education, gives away non-lead ammunition to hunters. This year, it plans to give away $60,000 in supplies. It is still legal to buy lead in California and to fire it at some shooting ranges. Sorenson laments that not all calibers are readily available at stores in non-lead options, which can also be more expensive. In California, people are not allowed to order ammunition online; they must buy it in person from a store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The prohibition of online sales is really a big deal, severely limiting availability,” Sorenson said. “The people who are really having a hard time [switching over to non-lead options] are the ranchers who are shooting sometimes hundreds of rounds of rimfire every weekend.” Rimfire is a type of low-cost ammunition popular for small-game hunting. Non-lead ammunition for one of the most common rifles used in the U.S., the 22 Long Rifle, often used for controlling ground squirrels, is not available in most stores, Sorenson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While other states do ammunition sales differently, they have their own problems. Currently, California is the only one with a lead ammo ban for shooting wildlife. But other states are considering similar actions and looking to California’s example.[aside postID=news_12059633 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GettyImages-1658708092-2000x1347.jpg']“California condors are the tip of a very large and worrisome iceberg,” said Mike Pokras, who ran the wildlife program at Tufts University near Boston for 35 years. He’s advocating for a bill in Maryland aimed at getting hunters to use non-lead bullets when harvesting animals that enter the human food chain, like deer. The goal is to keep both humans and scavenger animals healthier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, he said, “It is absolutely a global issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pokras knows people working to get lead out of wildlife from Norway to South Africa to Spain to Japan. Lead is killing bald eagles, loons, swans, cheetahs, sea eagles. The importance of addressing lead in ammunition, he said, goes beyond concern for animals. It’s a serious public health issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the lessons of the condor outlined in Finkelstein’s latest research paper will be very helpful for many lead-affected species. It shows that animal behavior can change, that food sources can change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, though, he sees one solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to get all this lead stuff off the market. The human risks aren’t just from eating animals that have been shot with lead, but simply handling the metallic lead,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children and pregnant women are especially vulnerable. The kids in Flint, Michigan, who were exposed to increased lead in water, experienced a host of physical and mental problems. Other kids have become sick from being exposed to old lead paint in substandard housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t matter where the lead comes from,” Pokras said. “It’s really bad for people. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Condors are very long-lived, so very small changes in their survival rate can make big differences on whether or not they will go extinct or not go extinct,” said Myra Finkelstein, an environmental toxicologist at UC Santa Cruz and senior author on the paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goal is that for us to stop releasing captive-bred birds, and currently right now, we still have to. The population is declining unless we release captive-bred birds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finkelstein published research in 2012 that showed the lead poisoning from ammunition was preventing the condor’s recovery. The findings built support for California to pass a lead bullet ban for hunting wildlife in 2013, which fully phased into effect in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the law passed, Finkelstein was very excited. “Not only does lead poison California condors, it will poison any scavenging species, and there’s no level of lead exposure that’s known to be without long-term effects for young kids. So [no lead] is just a win-win all around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2000337\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2000337\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/kqed_for_myra_story_966_chases_747_8076.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/kqed_for_myra_story_966_chases_747_8076.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/kqed_for_myra_story_966_chases_747_8076-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/kqed_for_myra_story_966_chases_747_8076-768x960.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/kqed_for_myra_story_966_chases_747_8076-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/kqed_for_myra_story_966_chases_747_8076-1638x2048.jpg 1638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California condor 966 Pixchi chases 747 Boeing through the late afternoon skies above Pinnacles National Park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Tim Huntington)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But in the years that followed the ban, she and her colleagues continued their research, but they did not see the lead mortality decrease as expected. In fact, it worsened. The amount of lead in the blood of Central California condors actually jumped after full implementation of the ban. This, on the face, made no sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t think that people were out there using more lead than they were before the ban,” she said. In fact, every indication from the hunting community was that people were largely, albeit not entirely, complying with the ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finkelstein said her research team felt under some pressure to be able to provide an explanation. If they can’t explain the cause, other states and countries could look at California’s example and conclude that “lead bullet bans don’t work to protect endangered species, we shouldn’t bother with them,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately, condor researchers in California are lucky in that they have extremely robust datasets. While most biologists study what they hope is a representative subset, Finkelstein and colleagues have access to three decades of near-daily data on every single condor in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We use every single bird,” Finkelstein said. “We have all the blood lead levels that have been collected. And we have all of the outreach that has been done. We have so much data. And with all these data, we were able to start looking at what could be influencing condor lead risk. Why is it worse now than it was five years ago?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They noticed two things: one, that an individual condor’s behavior was highly linked with how soon it died of lead poisoning. The birds still depend on the lead-free carcasses left by conservationists at certain sites. But more and more birds are venturing further afield, presumably picking up lead contamination in the carcasses they find. But where would that increased lead be coming from?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combining data from deer hunts, pig hunts and elsewhere, Finkelstein said they found, “lo and behold, what explained the problem in central California was an increase in pigs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feral pigs have become a nuisance, with most living on private land. They damage crops and vineyards and are a health hazard; they carry viruses, bacteria and parasites that can affect humans, pets, and livestock. Pig hunting tripled after 2008, and doubled again after 2019. Sometimes they’re killed without a tag, which is like a permission slip from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to kill an animal. It’s impossible to know how often.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2000338\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2000338\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/kqed_for_myra_story_966_portrait_8278-NR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/kqed_for_myra_story_966_portrait_8278-NR.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/kqed_for_myra_story_966_portrait_8278-NR-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/kqed_for_myra_story_966_portrait_8278-NR-768x960.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/kqed_for_myra_story_966_portrait_8278-NR-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/kqed_for_myra_story_966_portrait_8278-NR-1638x2048.jpg 1638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California condor 966 Pixchi at Pinnacles National Park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Tim Huntington)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But it doesn’t take much of an increase in lead on the landscape to affect condors. The paper, published in \u003cem>Nature Communications\u003c/em>, explains that fewer than 10 lead-contaminated feedings per year are enough to explain this increase in lead exposure seen in California’s condors. And a condor can be taken down by fewer feedings than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think people don’t understand that just one feeding, one tiny little sliver of lead can kill a condor — and condors are supposed to live 60 plus years,” Finkelstein said. “They never lived that long. We have a bunch of teenagers flying around out there, you know? Very few adults … It’s just tragic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the research team found that the lead ammunition bans are effective. Without them, condor mortality would be much worse. And, while California condors are not self-sustaining at the moment, they are almost there. A small additional decrease in lead, and they could get there. Interestingly, deer hunting appears to have a protective effect on condors. Deer hunters are overwhelmingly abiding by the lead ammunition ban, and so entrails left over from a deer being dressed in the field provide a safe meal for a condor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We only need to lower lead mortality by 1%, and the condor population is expected to become self-sustaining. Now that to me sounds like we’re on the verge of success here,” said Kelly Sorenson of the Ventana Wildlife Society, who has led major recovery efforts for condors across central California. Sorenson did not participate in the study. “And hunters and ranchers are being a part of that by switching to non-lead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ventana Wildlife Society, in addition to doing outreach and education, gives away non-lead ammunition to hunters. This year, it plans to give away $60,000 in supplies. It is still legal to buy lead in California and to fire it at some shooting ranges. Sorenson laments that not all calibers are readily available at stores in non-lead options, which can also be more expensive. In California, people are not allowed to order ammunition online; they must buy it in person from a store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The prohibition of online sales is really a big deal, severely limiting availability,” Sorenson said. “The people who are really having a hard time [switching over to non-lead options] are the ranchers who are shooting sometimes hundreds of rounds of rimfire every weekend.” Rimfire is a type of low-cost ammunition popular for small-game hunting. Non-lead ammunition for one of the most common rifles used in the U.S., the 22 Long Rifle, often used for controlling ground squirrels, is not available in most stores, Sorenson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While other states do ammunition sales differently, they have their own problems. Currently, California is the only one with a lead ammo ban for shooting wildlife. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“California condors are the tip of a very large and worrisome iceberg,” said Mike Pokras, who ran the wildlife program at Tufts University near Boston for 35 years. He’s advocating for a bill in Maryland aimed at getting hunters to use non-lead bullets when harvesting animals that enter the human food chain, like deer. The goal is to keep both humans and scavenger animals healthier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, he said, “It is absolutely a global issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pokras knows people working to get lead out of wildlife from Norway to South Africa to Spain to Japan. Lead is killing bald eagles, loons, swans, cheetahs, sea eagles. The importance of addressing lead in ammunition, he said, goes beyond concern for animals. It’s a serious public health issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the lessons of the condor outlined in Finkelstein’s latest research paper will be very helpful for many lead-affected species. It shows that animal behavior can change, that food sources can change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, though, he sees one solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to get all this lead stuff off the market. The human risks aren’t just from eating animals that have been shot with lead, but simply handling the metallic lead,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children and pregnant women are especially vulnerable. The kids in Flint, Michigan, who were exposed to increased lead in water, experienced a host of physical and mental problems. Other kids have become sick from being exposed to old lead paint in substandard housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t matter where the lead comes from,” Pokras said. “It’s really bad for people. Even if [gun owners are] target shooting, we don’t want them using lead.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe\n src='https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeeeKhyuk-_odJH80iw5eAlpLBF-YWJnOi_Yqs4BEN9fY1YJA/viewform?usp=publish-editor?embedded=true'\n title='https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeeeKhyuk-_odJH80iw5eAlpLBF-YWJnOi_Yqs4BEN9fY1YJA/viewform?usp=publish-editor'\n width='760' height='500'\n frameborder='0'\n marginheight='0' marginwidth='0'>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>With little snow in the forecast, California’s meager \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073190/big-storms-boost-california-water-supply-but-snowpack-lags\">snowpack \u003c/a>— at just \u003ca href=\"https://snow.water.ca.gov/\">59% of normal\u003c/a> for this time of year — could be in dire trouble. And that’s a big deal for winter sports enthusiasts who want to bag peaks or hit the slopes in Lake \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/tahoe\">Tahoe \u003c/a>this winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This winter hasn’t been a dry one, but it has been a tale of warm storms bringing rain, a few big cold winter systems \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073190/big-storms-boost-california-water-supply-but-snowpack-lags\">dropping multiple feet of snow\u003c/a> and then warm temperatures prematurely melting some of the cold white layer blanketing the Sierra Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The full three-month period, winter 2026, was in fact record warm throughout a majority of the Sierra Nevada,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with UC Agriculture and Natural Resources, in Monday’s edition of his \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJrPxdzBNKY&t=1s\">YouTube video series\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Whatsthelongrangesnowforecastlookinglike\">What’s the long-range snow forecast looking like?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Whereisthebestsnowtobefoundrightnow\">Where is the ‘best’ snow to be found right now?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>For example, Tahoe City got its third-warmest winter since records began in 1909, said Justin Collins, a meteorologist with the weather service’s Reno Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around Lake Tahoe, Swain described the area’s warm temperatures as “truly snow-eating” — meaning that much of the multiple feet of snow that fell in late February has already disappeared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Literally feet of the snow went away completely over the course of just a few days amid warm, moist and windy conditions,” Swain said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2000255\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1777px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2000255\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/MtShasta5_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1777\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/MtShasta5_qed.jpg 1777w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/MtShasta5_qed-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/MtShasta5_qed-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/MtShasta5_qed-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1777px) 100vw, 1777px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mt. Shasta is seen in the distance on July 19, 2018. \u003ccite>(Bianca Taylor/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What’s left of the snowpack in parts of the Sierra Nevada — especially along its northern ridges in places like Shasta — is more reminiscent of melt conditions that usually take place in a month or two later in spring, warned Swain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In some places, it looks very concerning,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for what weather forecasters and ski resort staff say about what to expect from the rest of the season.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When is the next snow in the forecast for the Sierra?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Forecasters expect a minor cold front to move over the Sierra Nevada on Wednesday and Thursday, but said it will likely only dust the Sierra Nevada with a relatively paltry 2 inches of snow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Amounts with this front aren’t very impressive, unfortunately,” meteorologist Collins said. And after that, he said, “We do clear out all the way through the middle of the month” — likely meaning no new snow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins said there is a slight chance another weak storm could hit the Sierra Nevada around March 12. But as of now, it’s too early to tell if it will move that far south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Temperatures will likely warm up to above normal this weekend, said Kate Forrest, a meteorologist with the weather service’s Sacramento office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She agreed that as of now, there’s nothing significant in the forecast that “would add to the current snowpack out there outside of the big February winter storm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s the snow quality right now in Tahoe?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For skiers heading to Tahoe, \u003ca href=\"https://blog.palisadestahoe.com/operations/feb-27-operations-update/\">expect spring-like conditions\u003c/a>, Palisades Tahoe spokesperson Patrick Lacey said. After last week’s rain, much of the fresh snow from the prior storm is now tamped down from the freezing and thawing cycle that happens each night and day up on the mountain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The snow is, accordingly, “pretty compact,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that might not sound appealing to some skiers, Lacey said these conditions produce “\u003ca href=\"https://www.powder.com/how-to/corn-snow-skiing\">corn\u003c/a>” snow, which some liken to “spring powder” — essentially a loose sun-baked (but not slushy) consistency that, for many people, “comes in second” after prized powder skiing, Lacey said.[aside postID=science_2000203 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/02/RESIZE-cherry-blossom.jpg']Most importantly, this freeze-thaw cycle has the potential to elongate the ski season at Palisades, Lacey said. That’s because the condensed snowpack acts as a solid base that sticks around longer, even when temperatures get high during the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Dodge Ridge ski resort in Pinecrest on Friday, temperatures were high, and the snow was slushy, according to Bing Xu, a Milpitas resident who helps moderate a Bay Area skiing forum on Facebook. But unlike some, Xu said he doesn’t mind a little slush compared to his ski experiences on the East — or “Ice” — Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not the fastest,” he said. “But it’s soft, and it’s easy to dig your edges in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to slush, however, there’s a limit to what even Xu can take — so he left the mountain around 1:45 p.m., when he said the snow became too sticky to enjoy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Xu is optimistic about his upcoming Tahoe trip with friends this weekend because temperatures this week have been lower than the last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope to ski at most of the resorts into mid-April,” he said. “And I hope Palisades can stay open till Memorial Day, but if it doesn’t snow again … I don’t know if they’re going to last until then.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hoping for another storm — obviously, the more snow the better — but I don’t know,” he said. “It’s been such a weird year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Whatsthelongrangesnowforecastlookinglike\">\u003c/a>How is the long-range snow forecast looking?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Over the next two weeks, Forrest said NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center is favoring above-normal temperatures and slightly below-average precipitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a bit difficult to give any specifics, but it does look like we’ll lean more on the drier and warmer side, at least heading into mid-March,” Forrest said. “We’ll just have to see if that is going to continue or if we’re going to get anything to shake up our weather pattern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After March 12, Collins said, the forecast gets a bit “messy” and forecast models “aren’t picking up too much” potential rain or snow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2000258\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2000258\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/SierraNevadaGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/SierraNevadaGetty2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/SierraNevadaGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/SierraNevadaGetty2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/SierraNevadaGetty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunrise view as snow blankets South Lake Tahoe on Nov. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“At least the way it looks right now, it looks pretty dry,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But still, Collins advised, forecasters can only confidently look into the future at a two-week time scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So anything is possible as it stands right now,” he said. “But we can’t rule out any storms towards the end of the month.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even longer range, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/seasonal.php?lead=1\">over the next three months\u003c/a>, the center is also forecasting slightly above-average temperatures and below-average precipitation across the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How long will ski resorts stay open this season?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ski resorts in the Tahoe area try to keep their lifts spinning as long as possible in the spring. But even so, many end their seasons mid-to-late April, depending on conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palisades Tahoe is one big exception: That resort tends to stay open all the way through Memorial Day in late May, and typically has the longest season of any Tahoe resort. Still, Lacey said, “we do kind of play it by ear,” and their closing date will depend entirely on conditions and demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a resort being open doesn’t necessarily mean the whole mountain will be accessible to skiers and riders. While the two major storms over Christmas and in mid-February are sustaining the resort’s snowpack and allowing it to open nearly 90% of terrain at peak moments of the season, some of Palisades’ lifts, like Silverado, have yet to open due to a lack of coverage, Lacey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Give me hope: How long has the snow season lasted in previous years?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A typical snowpack can last through May or early June. But that depends on factors including just how many cold storms come through, snow depth, high temperatures and heat waves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once it gets into late June, then that’s kind of the maximum range that we kind of see for the snowpack,” Collins said — given how warm temperatures and any rain can “eat away the snowpack.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1985948\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1985948 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/01/240102-SNOW-SURVEY-DWR-FG-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A mountaintop dusted in snow.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1288\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/01/240102-SNOW-SURVEY-DWR-FG-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/01/240102-SNOW-SURVEY-DWR-FG-01-KQED-800x515.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/01/240102-SNOW-SURVEY-DWR-FG-01-KQED-1020x657.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/01/240102-SNOW-SURVEY-DWR-FG-01-KQED-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/01/240102-SNOW-SURVEY-DWR-FG-01-KQED-768x495.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/01/240102-SNOW-SURVEY-DWR-FG-01-KQED-1536x989.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/01/240102-SNOW-SURVEY-DWR-FG-01-KQED-1920x1236.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The snow level on a mountain peak near the Phillips Station meadow where the California Department of Water Resources conducts snow surveys at the Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada on Jan. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Fred Greaves/California Department of Water Resources)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UC climate scientist Swain said that with the warm and dry forecast through at least mid-March, he expects the snowpack to start decreasing actively and for “the trend to essentially continue for the next couple of weeks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not as dire as elsewhere,” he said, “but also we do have a significant and worsening snow drought, even after the 5- or 6-foot snowstorm that some places saw later in February.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What about the ‘Miracle Marches’ (or Aprils) of previous years?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Sierra Nevada is a mountain range that deals in extremes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This means it’s not out of the ordinary for the range to have super wet, very dry or mid-snow years — and yes, there have been many years when the Sierra’s transition to spring has also been its heaviest snow month.[aside postID=news_12074364 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/YosemiteGetty.jpg']“Miracle Marches” dot its history — \u003ca href=\"https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2515-7620/add3cc\">1991\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2016/03/09/miracle-march-storms-bring-more-snow-rain-to-california/\">2016\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2018/03/29/late-sierra-nevada-snowstorms-rival-1991s-miracle-march/#:~:text=And%20even%20though%202018%20fell,Don't%20overlook%20that.%22&text=CapRadio%20provides%20a%20trusted%20source,our%20mission%2C%20please%20donate%20today.\">2018\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2023/10/05/miracle-water-year-in-california-rain-snow-put-states-reservoirs-at-128-of-historical-average/\">2023\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/california-miracle-march-snowfall-blizzard-2024-snowpack\">2024\u003c/a>. Even last winter was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033983/late-storms-boost-californias-snowpack-hitting-a-3-year-streak-not-seen-in-decades\">marked by late-season March snowstorms\u003c/a> that brought the snowpack to nearly 100% for the third year in a row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2515-7620/add3cc#:~:text=The%20term%20'Miracle%20March'%20is,how%20unusual%20such%20conditions%20are.&text=Original%20content%20from%20this%20work,work%2C%20journal%20citation%20and%20DOI.\">2025 study\u003c/a> in the journal Environmental Research Communications, the term itself was “coined through public discourse” after the record-breaking March of 1991, in which the snowpack jumped from around 15% to 75% of average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while this year’s late February storms did boost the snowpack, it wasn’t enough to set the state up for a good water year when it comes to its frozen reservoir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The snowpack is in better shape than it was one month ago, but we only have a month left of our snow-accumulation season and time is rapidly running out to catch up,” said Andy Reising, manager of the state’s Snow Surveys and Water Supply Forecasting Unit, in a \u003ca href=\"https://water.ca.gov/News/News-Releases/2026/Feb-2026/February-Storms-Provide-a-Much-Needed-Boost-but-Statewide-Snowpack-Remains-Below-Average\">press release\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Palisades’ Lacey is staying optimistic. He said March tends to be one of the snowiest months at the resort — and their \u003ca href=\"https://blog.palisadestahoe.com/operations/moving-at-the-speed-of-safety/\">blog\u003c/a> currently still has Memorial Day as the target closing date.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Whereisthebestsnowtobefoundrightnow\">\u003c/a>Amid all this gloom, where \u003cem>can\u003c/em> I find the best snow right now?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you are planning to head to Tahoe-area resorts, Lacey suggests “following the sun as much as possible,” hitting south-facing slopes in the morning and north-facing ones in the afternoon to take advantage of the “corn” consistency as the slopes melt each day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those chasing higher snowpacks from the Bay Area might consider heading south. While Palisades reports its base at 40 inches deep, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mammothmountain.com/on-the-mountain/mountain-report\">Mammoth Mountain in the Eastern Sierra\u003c/a> has a snow depth of 76 inches to work with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2000256\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2000256\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/Dodge-Ridge-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/Dodge-Ridge-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/Dodge-Ridge-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/Dodge-Ridge-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/Dodge-Ridge-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dodge Ridge Mountain Resort is one of the smaller Central Sierra resorts offered on the Cali Pass. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Dodge Ridge Mountain Resort)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s because \u003ca href=\"https://snow.water.ca.gov/\">snow levels aren’t the same across the range\u003c/a>. The northern part of the range is at 38%, the central part at 62% and the southern part at 82% of normal for this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emily van Greuning, spokesperson for Mammoth Mountain, said 100% of the mountain is currently open and they’re planning to keep lifts spinning at least through Memorial Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mammoth averages over 350 inches of snowfall a year, so it’s not uncommon for the resort to stay open late into spring and even summer, with historic closing dates as late as early August, she said. Last season, the mountain got 75 inches of snow in March alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But like every year, van Greuning said the closing date will depend mostly on Mother Nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have no idea what it’s going to bring,” she said. “It’s kind of day by day once we get to the end of the season.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Whatsthelongrangesnowforecastlookinglike\">What’s the long-range snow forecast looking like?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Whereisthebestsnowtobefoundrightnow\">Where is the ‘best’ snow to be found right now?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>For example, Tahoe City got its third-warmest winter since records began in 1909, said Justin Collins, a meteorologist with the weather service’s Reno Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around Lake Tahoe, Swain described the area’s warm temperatures as “truly snow-eating” — meaning that much of the multiple feet of snow that fell in late February has already disappeared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Literally feet of the snow went away completely over the course of just a few days amid warm, moist and windy conditions,” Swain said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2000255\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1777px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2000255\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/MtShasta5_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1777\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/MtShasta5_qed.jpg 1777w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/MtShasta5_qed-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/MtShasta5_qed-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/MtShasta5_qed-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1777px) 100vw, 1777px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mt. Shasta is seen in the distance on July 19, 2018. \u003ccite>(Bianca Taylor/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What’s left of the snowpack in parts of the Sierra Nevada — especially along its northern ridges in places like Shasta — is more reminiscent of melt conditions that usually take place in a month or two later in spring, warned Swain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In some places, it looks very concerning,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for what weather forecasters and ski resort staff say about what to expect from the rest of the season.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When is the next snow in the forecast for the Sierra?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Forecasters expect a minor cold front to move over the Sierra Nevada on Wednesday and Thursday, but said it will likely only dust the Sierra Nevada with a relatively paltry 2 inches of snow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Amounts with this front aren’t very impressive, unfortunately,” meteorologist Collins said. And after that, he said, “We do clear out all the way through the middle of the month” — likely meaning no new snow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins said there is a slight chance another weak storm could hit the Sierra Nevada around March 12. But as of now, it’s too early to tell if it will move that far south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Temperatures will likely warm up to above normal this weekend, said Kate Forrest, a meteorologist with the weather service’s Sacramento office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She agreed that as of now, there’s nothing significant in the forecast that “would add to the current snowpack out there outside of the big February winter storm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s the snow quality right now in Tahoe?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For skiers heading to Tahoe, \u003ca href=\"https://blog.palisadestahoe.com/operations/feb-27-operations-update/\">expect spring-like conditions\u003c/a>, Palisades Tahoe spokesperson Patrick Lacey said. After last week’s rain, much of the fresh snow from the prior storm is now tamped down from the freezing and thawing cycle that happens each night and day up on the mountain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The snow is, accordingly, “pretty compact,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that might not sound appealing to some skiers, Lacey said these conditions produce “\u003ca href=\"https://www.powder.com/how-to/corn-snow-skiing\">corn\u003c/a>” snow, which some liken to “spring powder” — essentially a loose sun-baked (but not slushy) consistency that, for many people, “comes in second” after prized powder skiing, Lacey said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Most importantly, this freeze-thaw cycle has the potential to elongate the ski season at Palisades, Lacey said. That’s because the condensed snowpack acts as a solid base that sticks around longer, even when temperatures get high during the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Dodge Ridge ski resort in Pinecrest on Friday, temperatures were high, and the snow was slushy, according to Bing Xu, a Milpitas resident who helps moderate a Bay Area skiing forum on Facebook. But unlike some, Xu said he doesn’t mind a little slush compared to his ski experiences on the East — or “Ice” — Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not the fastest,” he said. “But it’s soft, and it’s easy to dig your edges in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to slush, however, there’s a limit to what even Xu can take — so he left the mountain around 1:45 p.m., when he said the snow became too sticky to enjoy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Xu is optimistic about his upcoming Tahoe trip with friends this weekend because temperatures this week have been lower than the last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope to ski at most of the resorts into mid-April,” he said. “And I hope Palisades can stay open till Memorial Day, but if it doesn’t snow again … I don’t know if they’re going to last until then.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hoping for another storm — obviously, the more snow the better — but I don’t know,” he said. “It’s been such a weird year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Whatsthelongrangesnowforecastlookinglike\">\u003c/a>How is the long-range snow forecast looking?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Over the next two weeks, Forrest said NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center is favoring above-normal temperatures and slightly below-average precipitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a bit difficult to give any specifics, but it does look like we’ll lean more on the drier and warmer side, at least heading into mid-March,” Forrest said. “We’ll just have to see if that is going to continue or if we’re going to get anything to shake up our weather pattern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After March 12, Collins said, the forecast gets a bit “messy” and forecast models “aren’t picking up too much” potential rain or snow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2000258\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2000258\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/SierraNevadaGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/SierraNevadaGetty2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/SierraNevadaGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/SierraNevadaGetty2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/03/SierraNevadaGetty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunrise view as snow blankets South Lake Tahoe on Nov. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“At least the way it looks right now, it looks pretty dry,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But still, Collins advised, forecasters can only confidently look into the future at a two-week time scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So anything is possible as it stands right now,” he said. “But we can’t rule out any storms towards the end of the month.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even longer range, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/seasonal.php?lead=1\">over the next three months\u003c/a>, the center is also forecasting slightly above-average temperatures and below-average precipitation across the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How long will ski resorts stay open this season?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ski resorts in the Tahoe area try to keep their lifts spinning as long as possible in the spring. But even so, many end their seasons mid-to-late April, depending on conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palisades Tahoe is one big exception: That resort tends to stay open all the way through Memorial Day in late May, and typically has the longest season of any Tahoe resort. Still, Lacey said, “we do kind of play it by ear,” and their closing date will depend entirely on conditions and demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a resort being open doesn’t necessarily mean the whole mountain will be accessible to skiers and riders. While the two major storms over Christmas and in mid-February are sustaining the resort’s snowpack and allowing it to open nearly 90% of terrain at peak moments of the season, some of Palisades’ lifts, like Silverado, have yet to open due to a lack of coverage, Lacey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Give me hope: How long has the snow season lasted in previous years?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A typical snowpack can last through May or early June. But that depends on factors including just how many cold storms come through, snow depth, high temperatures and heat waves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once it gets into late June, then that’s kind of the maximum range that we kind of see for the snowpack,” Collins said — given how warm temperatures and any rain can “eat away the snowpack.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1985948\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1985948 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/01/240102-SNOW-SURVEY-DWR-FG-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A mountaintop dusted in snow.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1288\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/01/240102-SNOW-SURVEY-DWR-FG-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/01/240102-SNOW-SURVEY-DWR-FG-01-KQED-800x515.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/01/240102-SNOW-SURVEY-DWR-FG-01-KQED-1020x657.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/01/240102-SNOW-SURVEY-DWR-FG-01-KQED-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/01/240102-SNOW-SURVEY-DWR-FG-01-KQED-768x495.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/01/240102-SNOW-SURVEY-DWR-FG-01-KQED-1536x989.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/01/240102-SNOW-SURVEY-DWR-FG-01-KQED-1920x1236.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The snow level on a mountain peak near the Phillips Station meadow where the California Department of Water Resources conducts snow surveys at the Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada on Jan. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Fred Greaves/California Department of Water Resources)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UC climate scientist Swain said that with the warm and dry forecast through at least mid-March, he expects the snowpack to start decreasing actively and for “the trend to essentially continue for the next couple of weeks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not as dire as elsewhere,” he said, “but also we do have a significant and worsening snow drought, even after the 5- or 6-foot snowstorm that some places saw later in February.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What about the ‘Miracle Marches’ (or Aprils) of previous years?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Sierra Nevada is a mountain range that deals in extremes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This means it’s not out of the ordinary for the range to have super wet, very dry or mid-snow years — and yes, there have been many years when the Sierra’s transition to spring has also been its heaviest snow month.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Miracle Marches” dot its history — \u003ca href=\"https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2515-7620/add3cc\">1991\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2016/03/09/miracle-march-storms-bring-more-snow-rain-to-california/\">2016\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2018/03/29/late-sierra-nevada-snowstorms-rival-1991s-miracle-march/#:~:text=And%20even%20though%202018%20fell,Don't%20overlook%20that.%22&text=CapRadio%20provides%20a%20trusted%20source,our%20mission%2C%20please%20donate%20today.\">2018\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2023/10/05/miracle-water-year-in-california-rain-snow-put-states-reservoirs-at-128-of-historical-average/\">2023\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/california-miracle-march-snowfall-blizzard-2024-snowpack\">2024\u003c/a>. Even last winter was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033983/late-storms-boost-californias-snowpack-hitting-a-3-year-streak-not-seen-in-decades\">marked by late-season March snowstorms\u003c/a> that brought the snowpack to nearly 100% for the third year in a row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2515-7620/add3cc#:~:text=The%20term%20'Miracle%20March'%20is,how%20unusual%20such%20conditions%20are.&text=Original%20content%20from%20this%20work,work%2C%20journal%20citation%20and%20DOI.\">2025 study\u003c/a> in the journal Environmental Research Communications, the term itself was “coined through public discourse” after the record-breaking March of 1991, in which the snowpack jumped from around 15% to 75% of average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while this year’s late February storms did boost the snowpack, it wasn’t enough to set the state up for a good water year when it comes to its frozen reservoir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The snowpack is in better shape than it was one month ago, but we only have a month left of our snow-accumulation season and time is rapidly running out to catch up,” said Andy Reising, manager of the state’s Snow Surveys and Water Supply Forecasting Unit, in a \u003ca href=\"https://water.ca.gov/News/News-Releases/2026/Feb-2026/February-Storms-Provide-a-Much-Needed-Boost-but-Statewide-Snowpack-Remains-Below-Average\">press release\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Palisades’ Lacey is staying optimistic. He said March tends to be one of the snowiest months at the resort — and their \u003ca href=\"https://blog.palisadestahoe.com/operations/moving-at-the-speed-of-safety/\">blog\u003c/a> currently still has Memorial Day as the target closing date.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Whereisthebestsnowtobefoundrightnow\">\u003c/a>Amid all this gloom, where \u003cem>can\u003c/em> I find the best snow right now?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you are planning to head to Tahoe-area resorts, Lacey suggests “following the sun as much as possible,” hitting south-facing slopes in the morning and north-facing ones in the afternoon to take advantage of the “corn” consistency as the slopes melt each day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those chasing higher snowpacks from the Bay Area might consider heading south. 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The northern part of the range is at 38%, the central part at 62% and the southern part at 82% of normal for this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emily van Greuning, spokesperson for Mammoth Mountain, said 100% of the mountain is currently open and they’re planning to keep lifts spinning at least through Memorial Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mammoth averages over 350 inches of snowfall a year, so it’s not uncommon for the resort to stay open late into spring and even summer, with historic closing dates as late as early August, she said. Last season, the mountain got 75 inches of snow in March alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But like every year, van Greuning said the closing date will depend mostly on Mother Nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have no idea what it’s going to bring,” she said. “It’s kind of day by day once we get to the end of the season.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The Bay Area organization offers professionally guided outdoor trips, including backcountry skiing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bothwell is heartbroken over the deaths this week from the avalanche: “It’s a bad day for the backcountry community writ large. It’s a bad day for the guiding community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the fact that an avalanche took place this week wasn’t a surprise. January was practically snowless. What was left turned almost sugary; it rained at some point, and an icy top formed on that snow. Then this week, a big dump of snow fell on top of that icy crust. 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Researchers know whether an avalanche has stormed down a hill when someone clocks it and reports it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When someone reports an avalanche, the center and others like it across the country will rate its destructive size. They currently list the Tahoe avalanche as a D-2.5, with the size of a football field and the force to kill or bury a human.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sierra Avalanche Center also forecasts dangerous conditions using a separate \u003ca href=\"https://avalanche.org/avalanche-encyclopedia/human/resources/north-american-public-avalanche-danger-scale/\">five-point scale ranging from low to extreme\u003c/a>. The center rated the danger on the day of the avalanche as high.[aside postID=news_12073851 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260220-AVALANCHE-VICTIMS-KQED.jpg']Avalanches occur every winter in the Sierra Nevada, but is human-caused climate change increasing their size or frequency?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s super complicated,” said Benjamin Hatchett, an earth system scientist at Colorado State University who grew up backcountry skiing around Tahoe and researches snow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hatchett said that when it comes to climate change, “the fingerprints are everywhere.” But the conditions that led to the Tahoe avalanche are meteorological, not climatological. The rapid change to wet, cold weather brought by winter storms pushed down from the Gulf of Alaska.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see no evidence for climate change to play a role, certainly not a first or second order, probably not even further down the list than that,” Hatchett said. “And that’s kind of going back to the setup of the storm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some parts of the world with year-round snow, Hatchett said, there is a signal that climate change could be increasing avalanche danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In large glaciated mountains like the Alps, the Himalaya, and the Andes, the answer is very likely yes because of a warming environment that’s destabilizing snow and ice,” Hatchett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2000144\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2000144\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/02/SierraAvalanche1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/02/SierraAvalanche1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/02/SierraAvalanche1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/02/SierraAvalanche1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/02/SierraAvalanche1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sierra Avalanche Center forecasters observe a crack in the snow on Feb. 17, 2026. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Nolan Averbuch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But in areas with seasonal snowpacks, like the Sierra Nevada, Hatchett said there isn’t a clear answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is something we expect to see more of in the future, but we don’t have strong evidence for that happening now,” Hatchett said. “There are absolutely ways that a warming world will statistically change things, and that goes back to the way this winter started with a lot of rain instead of snow. 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"content": "\u003cp>After more than four decades under its founding executive director, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/monterey-bay\">Monterey Bay\u003c/a> Aquarium is preparing for a leadership shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Jenny Gray will step in as the Aquarium’s new chief executive officer in May, succeeding Julie Packard, who has led the institution since it opened in 1984. Packard will remain on the Aquarium’s board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gray comes to Monterey from Australia, where she has served as CEO of Zoos Victoria, a conservation organization. In the zoo and aquarium world, she’s known for centering ethics, animal welfare and large-scale conservation in her work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The opportunity to lead Monterey Bay Aquarium provides a platform for me to contribute to ocean conservation, steward another iconic institution, and take on a new professional challenge,” Gray said in a statement. Packard said the transition feels like a natural next step.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re excited because Jenny Gray is one of the most influential zoo leaders in the world and a passionate champion for conservation,” Packard said in an email to KQED. “The throughline in her career has been to connect people with the beauty of this planet and to help them make decisions that support it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2000125\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2000125\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/02/RESIZED_Sea-Nettles-Monterey-Bay-Aquarium-photo-by-Randy-Wilder-SCALED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/02/RESIZED_Sea-Nettles-Monterey-Bay-Aquarium-photo-by-Randy-Wilder-SCALED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/02/RESIZED_Sea-Nettles-Monterey-Bay-Aquarium-photo-by-Randy-Wilder-SCALED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/02/RESIZED_Sea-Nettles-Monterey-Bay-Aquarium-photo-by-Randy-Wilder-SCALED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2026/02/RESIZED_Sea-Nettles-Monterey-Bay-Aquarium-photo-by-Randy-Wilder-SCALED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sea nettle jellyfish at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Randy Wilder/Monterey Bay Aquarium)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That approach closely mirrors the Aquarium’s mission: inspiring conservation of the ocean by blending immersive exhibits, science and storytelling. Since opening, the Aquarium has drawn hundreds of millions of visitors and welcomed millions of students for free educational programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visitors shouldn’t expect a dramatic shift in tone. Packard said Gray has “tremendous admiration for the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s inspiring exhibit experience and conservation impact” and is committed to delivering experiences that “educate and delight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Gray’s background suggests she may also push the Aquarium’s public engagement further into the policy arena, Packard said.[aside postID=news_12059734 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/OtterMontereyBayAquarium1.jpg']At Zoos Victoria, she launched campaigns designed to translate awareness into measurable change. One, called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.zoo.org.au/balloons/\">When Balloons Fly, Seabirds Die\u003c/a>,” focused on plastic pollution. By spotlighting how balloon clips were turning up in dead seabirds’ stomachs, the campaign helped shift public behavior and ultimately contributed to a statewide ban on balloon releases in Victoria. Three years after the campaign began, balloon-related litter on one major coastline dropped by 63%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s too soon to tell” exactly what new campaigns might look like in Monterey, Packard said, but Gray has “a terrific track record of big public education campaigns that focus on specific issues that move the needle on bigger policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As climate change intensifies pressure on ocean ecosystems, the Aquarium wants to focus on both education and advocacy. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At Zoos Victoria, she launched campaigns designed to translate awareness into measurable change. One, called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.zoo.org.au/balloons/\">When Balloons Fly, Seabirds Die\u003c/a>,” focused on plastic pollution. By spotlighting how balloon clips were turning up in dead seabirds’ stomachs, the campaign helped shift public behavior and ultimately contributed to a statewide ban on balloon releases in Victoria. Three years after the campaign began, balloon-related litter on one major coastline dropped by 63%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s too soon to tell” exactly what new campaigns might look like in Monterey, Packard said, but Gray has “a terrific track record of big public education campaigns that focus on specific issues that move the needle on bigger policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As climate change intensifies pressure on ocean ecosystems, the Aquarium wants to focus on both education and advocacy. It plans to continue advancing science-based solutions and mobilizing its audiences through advocacy programs and partnerships, including closer collaboration with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute to spotlight cutting-edge ocean climate research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gray is, Packard said, “crazy about animals.” Her favorite is a wombat — at least for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She immediately emailed me when she heard we had an \u003ca href=\"https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/animals-a-to-z/ocean-sunfish\">ocean sunfish (mola)\u003c/a> in our \u003ca href=\"https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/visit/exhibits/open-sea\">Open Sea exhibit\u003c/a> this week,” Packard said. “That’s just the start of what Monterey Bay has to share when it comes to animal life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: Monterey Bay Aquarium is a financial sponsor of KQED.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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And just this morning, Bay Area peaks, like Mount Hamilton in Santa Clara County, collected several inches of snow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecasters said the consistent downpour will last through Wednesday across the greater Bay Area, but off-and-on showers are likely through Saturday. 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Flooding has been minimal so far, he said, but next week could be a different story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the areas that got a lot of rain this week may start to see some of those compounding flooding effects,” Behringer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behringer doesn’t expect any large-scale river flooding because rivers across the region are in “pretty good shape to accept a lot more runoff.” He said that if any does occur, it will likely be localized in urban areas and along small streams.[aside postID=news_12073593 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DonnerPassGetty.jpg']Across the Sierra Nevada, forecasters said ski resorts are already reporting a foot to a couple of feet of snow, with 12 inches at Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This really is just the beginning,” Edan Lindaman, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Reno, told KQED. “This is just a really strong winter storm. 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