NASAさんのインスタグラム写真 - (NASAInstagram)「Let it snow! ❄️ After three years of extreme drought, 2023 was a boom year for precipitation in the Sierra Nevada. Many parts of California measured more than 200 percent of expected precipitation this year. According to the National Weather Service, 2023 saw some of the coldest weather that California has seen since the late 1970s. This means a lot of snow! The first image shows the Sierra Nevada mountains in early April of this year, and the second image is during the same week in 2022. This year's snowpack is one of the largest on record in California. Image Descriptions: Image 1: (2023) Satellite view of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. It cuts diagonally from the upper left of the image to the bottom right and is almost completely white from snow. To the right of the range is a desert looking area. It’s beige brown, and patches of snow are scattered across it. To the left of the range is a valley in shades of greens and browns. Image 2: (2022) The same mountain range except the colors are all more brown than the other. There is not nearly as much snow on the range, so you can see underneath it more, revealing dark brown rock. There are less patches of snow to the right, and the valley is much less green than the other image. #Space #NASA #Snow #California #Climate #Earth」5月4日 0時42分