The latest flurries that dusted parts of the Sierra Nevada this week are unlikely to do much to ease California’s snow drought. Since April 1 — when the state measured its second-lowest snowpack on record — the Sierra Nevada has seen a few rounds of storms. This week’s system triggered winter storm warnings in the range and brought up to two feet of snow at the peaks. … “It’s not going to do enough to get you back to a normal snowpack year,” said Chad Hecht, a meteorologist with the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. “Since we are in April and approaching May, it will not last too long up in the higher elevations. It’ll continue to melt off.”

Other snowpack news:

• Grunion Gazette (Calif.): Opinion: Disappearing snowpack means drought days will return​