Officials planned to measure the Sierra Nevada snowpack on Wednesday.

官员们计划于周三测量内华达山脉积雪场。

The snowpack isn't lasting as long with the higher temperatures.

随着气温的升高，积雪持续的时间不会那么长。

Winter storms have walloped California this year, and snowpack is piling up.

今，冬季风暴重创加州，积雪堆积。

This is, by far, the lowest snowpack on record.

目前为止, 这是有记录以来最少的积雪。

That means the snowpack in places like Alaska is melting earlier in the year.

这意味着在一中，阿拉斯加等地的积雪场的融化时段提前了。

And the Sierra Nevada mountain snowpack, the source of much of the water in Los Angeles, was 20 percent below normal when measured in May.

而洛杉矶大部分水资源来源的内华达山脉积雪在5时候已经低于正常水平的20%。

The snowpack is basically nature's version of water storage in the form of snow since the state gets most of its precipitation in the winter.

自这个州冬季达最大降雪量以来，积雪基本上是自然界所赋予以雪的形式储备的水源。

Unlike, let's say, water that comes from rainfall or water that comes from snowpack, we are utilizing what essentially is the world's largest reservoir, the Pacific Ocean.

让我们来看一下，我们可以利用降雨和积雪中的水，更可以对于本来就是世界上最大蓄水池的太平洋加以利用。

But scientists have found that climate change - including longer, hotter and drier fire seasons, diminishing snowpack and lengthening droughts - have already measurably worsened the size and scale of fires in the western United States.

但科学家们已经发现，气候变化——包括山火季节变长，变热，变干燥，积雪变少，干旱时间变长等——已经显著恶化了西部的火灾规模。