SACRAMENTO (AP) — California’s Department of Water Resources says its latest survey shows the Sierra Nevada snowpack is still well below normal — bad news for the drought-stricken state.
The survey was made Thursday as the first of two back-to-back Pacific storms lightly blanketed the Sierra with fresh snow.
The department says manual and electronic readings show the snowpack’s statewide water content at 24 percent of average for the date.
The northern and central Sierra snowpack provides about a third of California’s water supply.
More snow is expected from the week’s second and more powerful storm which is expected to arrive late Thursday and last into Saturday.