Holiday storms left the Sierra Nevada snowpack around Carson City near average for this time of year, but other parts of Nevada are languishing. “On Jan. 1, basin snowpack percentages are split, with the eastern Sierra basins at 86-128 percent of median snow, while the rest of Nevada and the Upper Colorado basin have only 17-64 percent of median snow,” reads a Jan. 1 report from the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. … As of Monday morning, snow water equivalent — how much water content resides in the snowpack — was at 105 percent of median in the Carson River Basin. The Lake Tahoe Basin was at 103 percent, the Truckee River Basin around 108 percent and the Walker River Basin around 128 percent.

Other snowpack news around the West:

• The Coloradoan (Denver): Is it time to panic about Colorado’s low snowpack? We asked experts
• Aspen Public Radio (Colo.): Thin snowpack is made worse by warm nights