Feds: California Reservoirs Half Full Despite El Niño Storms

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) – The recent onslaught of El Niño  storms only slightly increased the levels of California reservoirs that stand at half of historic depths for this time of year, federal officials said Friday while releasing an initial water outlook for 2016.
Heavy rainfall has soaked into a landscape that has been parched by four years of drought, and the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada has grown but hasn’t started to melt off and replenish the critically low reservoir