the desert research institute in reno, scientists analyzed data from past seasons, and we had the caldor south lake tahoe. they found that mid winter dry spells, burn scars had significantly higher snow melt. >> during these dry periods in the middle of winter, we found that you can lose through melt close to half of the snowpack, if not more in some of the lower elevation places. in places higher in the mountains where we don't expect a big change to take place, even if it's dry, after the fire has passed through that caused snow to melt much faster in those higher elevation areas. >> the impacts of wildfire on snow melt include more sun exposure and a reduction in the snow's ability to reflect sunlight, and in the winter, immediately following a fire, snow is dusted with black carbon from burnt vegetation, which can accelerate snow melt rates. scientists say while extreme weather may be our new normal, we have the ability to adapt, manage and mitigate the impacts. >> how do we deal with fire is through the addition of more fire. we need good fire, low severity, prescribed fire or cultu

in a study by the desert research institutenreno, they scanned satellite images, and we had the caldorouth lake tahoe. they found during midwinter dry spells, burn scar areas i the sierra had significantly higher snow melts. >> during the dry periods in winter, you could lose through melt close to half of the snow pack, even more in lower-elevation places, but places higher in the mountains where we don't expect a big change to take place, even if it's dry, after the fire passed through, that caused snow to melt much faster in those higher elevation areas. >> the impacts of wildfire on snow melt include more sun exposure drew dew to the loss of forest canopy and the reduction in the snow's ability to reflect that sunlight. in the winter, immediately following a fire, snow is dusted with bakar bonn from burnt vegetation, which can accelerate snow melt rates. so, stists say, while extreme weather may be our new normal, we do have the ability to adapt, manage, and mitigate the impact. >> how do we deal with fire is actually through the addition of more fire. we need good fire, low severit

kristen: can you explain to us, why is it when we see more wildfires, i'm thinking of the caldor firefor example, what does that do to the landscape, to the area that threatens our snowpack? benjamin: so it does two things in particular. it removes forest canopy by, in some cases, completely combusting all the trees, as you are seeing in some of these photos, and that reduces the abilityoshave the snowck, so its when the snow falls, we get a little bit of snow on the ground, we get a lot more solar radiation or sunlight hitting the snow. the other big thing is all of this burned material, either in the canopy or just the remaining snags or burned trees, burned shrubs, as the winter goes on, the wind knocks pieces of that charred debris onto that snow, and it reduces the snowpack's activity, snow is one of the brightest natural substances, and as we make it darker, it is more easily absorbing the radiation, which is also going up, because we remove the canopy. so it is a two full process that causes snow to melt out more quickly and earlier in the season. kristen: so what happens? what

: this comes at the perfect time percy -- for sierra and tahoe which is still recovering from the caldor fire that burned 16 hundred of the 2000 acres. lisa: it normal. certainly some good news. too much in the near future. a cold front moving into the pacific northwest and live doppler 7 shows the cloud cover and the rain for the bay area. we'll see some high clouds sweep into our region this afternoon. 40 two in san leandro. do have some fog in santa rosa. a bit of a windchill factor in livermore and not as cold as it has been because we've hired dew points. up her 30's in livermore, looking at 40 one sin carlos, through out the day you will notice the high clouds to the afternoon. we will look for some clearing tonight and looking at the highs today ranging from the upper 50's 50's to low 60's, but by the time we get to thursday, numbers coming through the 60's in san jose, santa rosa and that will allow for five to six degrees warming compared to today. in terms of rainfall, our 10 day average -- outlook looking very scant out there. maybe a couple of hundreds. this takes us through

and last quick thing here before we let you obviously the caldor fire swept through that region. pretty bad out there on the affected. a lot of business and local businesses and homes. >> how are things now compared to, you know, back in 2021? on monday of a message for folks in the community. >> you know, our our got there just with people who are affected in our community. and it was a really tough time specially 2021, i know this past summer in 2022, we did see a little bit of wildfire smoke, but it definitely wasn't as bad as the caldor fire. so just our thoughts are with them. and we hope that everything's on the up and up for them. but right now, yeah, i mean, let with all the snow. hopefully we can push back any wildfires this season. >> yeah, absolutely. well, thank you so maddy condon with palisades tahoe. we appreciate your perspective this morning and have -o much fun out there. thank you so much for having me. all right. thank you. and now we want to check in on weather conditions that brittany begley has been looking at. i believe you're going start us off with a loo