Encouraging Results From First Sierra Snow Survey

ECHOE SUMMIT, Calif. (AP) – The water content of the Sierra Nevada snowpack in drought-stricken California was 136 percent of normal Wednesday when officials took the winter’s first manual survey – an encouraging result after nearly no snow was found at the site in April.
The latest snow level is a good sign, “but that’s it – it’s a start,” said Frank Gehrke, chief of the California Cooperative Snow Surveys Program for the Department of Water