It’s looking increasingly likely that we’ll be having another wet winter. Department of Water Resources Climatologist, Mike Anderson, says at least a moderate El Nino is setting up, although it might not be as strong for the North State…

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But Anderson says there may not be as many low snow events as last year…

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But Anderson notes that the last El Nino winter, in 2019, had the fifth-biggest snowpack on record in the Sierra. The Department says Lake Oroville levels last winter had the single biggest increase in the State Water Project’s history. A total of three-and-a-half million acre feet of water was captured. Storage is currently at over 130-percent of average, about twice what it was the previous year.Shasta Dam is also over 130-percent. Bullards is at over 110-percent of normal, with Englebright still at over 100-percent.