Study says California’s 2023 snowy rescue from megadrought was a freak event. Don’t get used to it

Payne Institute Faculty Fellow Adrienne Marshall contributes to this article about how last year’s snow deluge in California, which quickly erased a two decade long megadrought, was essentially a once-in-a-lifetime rescue from above. Don’t get used to it because with climate change the 2023 California snow bonanza —a record for snow on the ground on April 1 — will be less likely in the future.  April 29, 2024.