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Is in steady decline. we have to embrace that if we want to keep living out here. >> stark stuff there. our sara sidner in a dry and desperate pine flat lake, california. >> we want to get more on this story. our meteorologist, pedram javaheri, joins us now with more. it was true what we heard from the lady at the start. you don't know what you've missed until the water runs dry. >> yeah. it's getting there quickly. you know, the numbers are staggering of how much water they need, how little water they have to work with. and it goes back to what's happening across the high sierra. of course, w...

And as you can clearly see, there's no snow at this location. and this is the first year in its measurements going back to 1942 where this snow course has been bare. no snow at all. and unfortunately, that's what we're finding more or less statewide, where upwards of 60% to 70% of the 240 manual snow course measurements that are being made on or about april 1st are showing bare ground, no snow. and i just wanted to show you, to give you some perspective, this was the -- the black is the 1977 measurement that in that area was the previous driest on record. the yellow is last year's measurement....

And the very top of this pole is the maximum, 150 inches of snow depth that we've recorded in all these past years. this is bad news in terms of the state's water picture. >> that man is the chief of snow surveys for the california state government. the bright side is his job is much easier than usual. nothing to measure. but it's also much, much scarier. he had it marked on the snow stick, pointing out the bottom one. what happened in 1977. which is a legendary year, the worst that anybody could imagine in california. the only thing california has been through in its history is a state that i...

To give you some perspective, this was the -- the black is the 1977 measurement that in many areas, was the previous driest on record. the yellow is last year's measurement. green is the average snow depth at this location. and the very top of this pole is the maximum, 150 inches of snow depth that we've recorded in all these past years. this is bad news in terms of the state's water picture. >> that man is the chief of snow surveys for the california state government. the bright side is his job is much easier than usual. nothing to measure. but it's also much, much scarier. what he's talking ...

Dogs are all these mushers have left. >> let's get more on this from derek van dam in the world weather center. is this normal has it happened before that there's no snow? >> it's happened before. in fact they've moved this race north into the fairbanks region once before in this nearly 75-year running of the alaskan iditarod. this is the total snow depth at the moment across the portion of alaska where it's taking place from fairbanks to nome roughly 968 miles, 1,600 kilometers. look at the snow depth near anchorage where the ceremonial start took place on saturday. less than an inch of snow....