AQUAFORNIA BREAKING NEWS – Plentiful early-season Sierra snowpack signals ‘remarkable turnaround’ amid historic drought
A series of record-setting blizzards in recent weeks … have combined to offer California a glimpse of hope after two years of historic and punishing drought. Snowpack across the Sierra Nevada appears far ahead of historical averages — an unexpected respite from years of bone-dry forecasts, leaving climatologists cautiously optimistic about drought conditions improving across the state…. [On Thursday] officials with the California Department of Water Resources measured 78.5 inches of snow and about 20 inches of water within that snow – a total that’s 202% of average for this time of year.