Snowpack Survey Expected To Show Dramatic Change

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Roaring storms that brought California almost a year’s worth of snow and rain in a single month should make state water managers’ Sierra snowpack survey Thursday a celebration, marking this winter’s dramatic retreat of the state’s more than 5-year-drought, water experts say.
Typically, snowfall in the Sierra Nevada mountains during winter storms provide a third of the state’s water through the year, as the drifts melt. In January, back-to-