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

FILE – Working inside a nearly 18-foot-deep snow pit at the UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab, from left, Shaun Joseph, Claudia Norman, Helena Middleton take measurements of snow temperatures ahead of a weather storm on March 9, 2023, in Soda Springs, Calif. A new study finds the snow deluge in California, which quickly erased a two decade long megadrought, was essentially a once-in-a-lifetime rescue from above. The study authors coined the term “snow deluge” for one-in-20-year heavy snowfalls. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group via AP, File)

DENVER (AP) — 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, a new study found.

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, said …

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