Mother Nature Takes The Sierra On A Wild Ride; Record Set For Lack Of Snowfall

By CBS San Francisco Staff:

DONNER PASS (CBS SF) — Mother Nature has taken the Sierra on a wild ride over the last three months. Just ask the researchers at the UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab nestled in the mountains near the famed Donner Pass.

With the dramatic shift in weather from wet to dry has come a change of tone from the UC research team, as a new unflattering record has been established.

“Record broken: Our lack of storms over the last month has now led to the longest consecutive period without measurable #precipitation during meteorological winter (WY 1971-2022) with 32 since our last #snowfall. The previous record was 31 days in 1990,” the lab posted on Twitter this week.

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