California’s water resources look promising thanks to a string of cold, wet storms since January, but the state’s leaders are eyeing how significant the payout from those storms will be for future years. State officials and experts from the University of California, Berkeley’s Central Sierra Snow Laboratory say the Golden State’s water and snow outlook is looking good this spring, despite a dry start to the water year. The milestone snowpack survey of the year, conducted Tuesday at Phillips Station in El Dorado County, found a snowpack measuring 64 inches and a snow water equivalent — water contained in the snowpack — of 27.5 inches. … All state watersheds have significantly improved in water storage since Feb. 20, with all sitting at 90% or higher. The State Water Project also increased its forecast allocation of water supplies to 30%.

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