TRUCKEE (AP) — Consecutive dry winters in the Sierra are setting the stage for another summer drought across much of western and northern Nevada. Significant snowfall in January turned into some of the driest weather on record during the last two months, leaving the mountain snowpack at about half of normal when the traditional season ended Monday. Dan Greenlee, a snow surveyor for the U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service, told the Reno Gazette-Journal that April 1 typically is the peak of the winter snowpack, so it's "a pretty sad ending."
Sierra snow half normal after dry early 2013