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The water content of California’s mountain snowpack was just over half of the normal average, a modest increase from Jan. 1 but still far below the usual, state officials said.

Areas across the globe have seen spring snowpack shrink over the last 40 years, and a new study says for many of them climate change is clearly to blame.

What does a Sierra snowpack of only 30% on Jan. 2 signal for Southern California's water supplies?

The lack of snow so far this year is due to fewer big storms than normal hitting California. When storms have come, they have been warmer, depositing snow mostly at higher elevations.

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The mountain snowpack that supplies a significant amount of California's water got an incredible boost from recent powerful storms and is outpacing the state's wettest season on record, state water officials said Wednesday. Water content in the state's mountain snow is 205% of normal to date and 128% of the April 1 average, when the snow is at its historical peak, according to measurements taken by the California Department of Water Resources. Historically one-third of Californi...

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