Snowpack and moisture is dramatically up across most of the mountain region, and recent rainfall and reduced demand has helped Lake Mead rise just under 2 feet in the past month. The news comes as water officials across the Colorado River basin are struggling to achieve conservation measures required by the federal government. Areas in the northern Rocky Mountains including Northern Idaho, Western Montana and Northern Wyoming are at or slightly below normal snow-water levels. There are still small areas of so-called snow drought in isolated regions, including the Sangre De Cristo Mountains, straddling the New Mexico-Colorado border. A continuous barrage of so-called atmospheric rivers have made landfall in Central and Northern California, spreading copious amounts of mountain snowfall in the Sierra Nevada, Great Basin and parts of the Upper Colorado River Basin. Snow in the northwest is generally around 120 percent of normal. Only New Mexico snow-water levels are below normal across most of the state. However, it is more like a drop in the bucket compared to the contribution from the snow pack in the Upper Colorado River Basin in E Utah, W Colorado, & SW Wyoming. Rain in the #LasVegas Valley does help with Lake Mead's water levels. Most of Utah is 150 percent above normal and in Central California mountains, levels range from 196 percent to 274 percent higher than normal. Measurements released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Thursday show snow-water levels nearly 300 percent higher than normal south of Reno and more than 200 percent across most of Nevada. More hope for a wet winter in Las Vegas and the Southwest comes in a report detailing widespread snow and rainfall across almost all of the West. Several storms, known as "atmospheric rivers" have helped build snow and water levels in Central California, Utah and Nevada, says a government report. All rights reserved.FILE - Kevin Kimo Laughlin, a maintenance worker for Aramark, wades back to dry ground as the Merced River rises due to rain in Yosemite National Park's Yosemite Valley on Saturday, April 7, 2018. On Tuesday, another small plane crashed shortly after takeoff, killing one and injuring three others, according to the FAA.ĪBC News’ Amanda Maile, Nicholas Kerr and Amanda Morris contributed to this report.Ĭopyright © 2023, ABC Audio. This is the second crash this week near the French Valley Airport. Sunday, though that is subject to change, the sheriff’s office said. The restriction is tentatively set through 1 p.m. The FAA has issued a temporary flight restriction in the area “to protect the integrity of the crime scene and the safety of any incoming aircraft,” the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office said. The French Valley Airport is closed at this time amid the investigation into the crash, Riverside County Airport Manager Angela Jamison confirmed to ABC News. Radar data, weather information, plane maintenance records and the pilot’s medical records will be requested as part of the investigation, the NTSB said.Ī preliminary report is expected to be published in 15 days. Investigators with NTSB, which is leading the investigation, are responding to the crash site to document the scene and examine the aircraft. The NTSB and Federal Aviation Administration are investigating. CAL FIRE/Riverside County Fire Department July 8, 2023
and the incident has been turned over to RSO and the FAA. The fire burned approximately one acre of vegetation, was contained at 5:35 a.m. Cessna aircraft down in a field, fully involved in fire. Auld Road X Briggs Road in French Valley. The fire from the crash burned approximately one acre of vegetation and was contained by 5:35 a.m. The Cessna C550 business jet had departed from Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas and “crashed short of French Valley Airport during its second approach,” the NTSB said based on preliminary information.ĭeputies responding to the crash “located an aircraft fully engulfed in flames in a field,” the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.Īll six occupants aboard the plane were located and pronounced dead at the scene, the sheriff’s office said. PT Saturday in Murrieta in Riverside County, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. (CALIFORNIA) - Six people were killed when a business jet traveling from Las Vegas to southern California crashed into a field while approaching an airport and then became engulfed in flames, authorities said.
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