Since the end of February, California has found itself largely covered in a blanket of white, down to the mountains that overlook the famous letters “Hollywood”. A historic amount of snow has fallen on the state, which already has twice the snowpack of previous years, indicates the Los Angeles Times. With the new precipitation expected in March, we could exceed the record recorded during the winter of 1982-1983, remember The Washington Post.
Because of this unusual rainfall, “national parks and highways had to be closed, entire neighborhoods were buried, motorists were stranded and residents stuck in their homes; houses have seen their roofs collapse and thousands of homes in mountain communities have been left without electricity,” reports the newspaper of the federal capital.
Nevertheless, “for a population that had just suffered three consecutive years of extreme drought, these flakes were also something miraculous”.
“An incredible winter”
As Andrew Schwartz, head of the Central Sierra Nevada Snow Laboratory at UC Berkeley, points out: “It’s an incredible winter
