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California Snow Water Equivalent by Basin

Daily % of normal snow water equivalent at automated SNOTEL/CDEC stations by major reservoir basin (Feather, San Joaquin, etc.)

Feed detail
Measures
Daily % of normal snow water equivalent at automated SNOTEL/CDEC stations by major reservoir basin (Feather, San Joaquin, etc.)
Source
CA Dept of Water Resources CDEC (cdec.water.ca.gov) + NRCS SNOTEL API (wcc.sc.egov.usda.gov)
Access
csv
Cadence
dailyupdates once a day
Thesis
Snowpack anomalies forecast spring/summer reservoir inflow, driving CA almond/pistachio irrigation allocations and hydropower generation months ahead
Maps to
almond/pistachio futures proxies, CAISO hydropower share, California water futures (NQH2O)
Crowdedness
contested
Tier
tA
Ban-risk
ban:none
Where this stands

This is a catalogued data feed with a research idea attached, not a validated edge. Being listed here means it has a specific source and a one-sentence causal mechanism mapped to what it should move — it doesn’t mean it has cleared the five-stage validation gate (point-in-time hygiene, out-of-sample holdout, multiple-testing correction, and the portfolio-layer backstop). As of today, every score on this site is prior-only; zero signals in the catalog have been promoted to “measured” status. See the methodology page for the full validation process and current counts.

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