Rainy conditions will pick up again across Northern California this week, starting Monday night and lasting through Wednesday morning. … The incoming rain will fall from a large atmospheric river storm that will impact areas of Northern California, including high elevations in the Sierra Nevada, with its newly bolstered snowpack. … The Sierra snowpack has the capacity to soak up the rain that does fall, which means less risk of flooding. … Despite all the snow from last week, much of the Sierra snowpack is still lower than average. Swain said that while last week’s snowstorms helped, much of the Western U.S. is starved for snow.

Other water supply and snowpack news around the West:

• The Colorado Sun (Denver): February storms offer a good, but not great, boon to Colorado’s snowpack and ski resorts
• NBC12 (Phoenix): Northern Arizona snowpack offers clues to water supply for millions
• San Francisco Chronicle: Pineapple Express to flood California with warm air, rain
• KCRA (Sacramento, Calif.): Northern California rain forecast: Recent snow likely to melt, avalanche risk also increases
• Los Angeles Times: Dramatic satellite photos show California’s mountains blanketed in snow after intense storms
• The Land Desk: Blog: Storms help snowpack, but it remains scant — and deadly