(Image credit: NOAA/NCEI)A total of 29 states, all from Texas to Michigan eastward, had a top-10 warmest winter (see Figure 1 above), and it was the warmest winter on record for Massachusetts. Four of the 10 warmest winters on record have occurred since 2011, and only three winters this century came in colder than the 20th-century average. Wisconsin had its wettest winter on record, and seven other states from the West to Midwest experienced a top-10-wettest winter (see Figure 3). (Image credit: Carol Rasmussen)Almost 12 feet (116.5 inches) of snowpack was measured at Philips Station on March 3, and the snow water equivalent of 41.5 inches was (again!) Snow water content by region across California’s Sierra Nevada as of March 7, 2023, compared to recent years, the long-term average (1991-2020), and the record-setting year of 1982-83.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 09, 2023 02:07 UTC