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Will California see a wet winter? Forecasters call it a ‘crapshoot’

Gov. Jerry Brown, right, walks into a snowless meadow during the 2015 snowpack survey.
Gov. Jerry Brown, right, walks into a snowless meadow during the 2015 snowpack survey. The lack of snow bolstered the governor’s case for water conservation.
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Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, comments on the future of California’s drought. According to Swain, one wet winter will not be sufficient to mitigate the effects of the drought. Instead “you’d need multiple, consecutive wet winters and, ideally, cooler years in terms of getting a nice accumulation of mountain snowpack,” he says.

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