The depth of the snowpack was declared to be just below average, a huge improvement from last year, but still far from enough to declare the drought over.
In a symbolic moment in California’s slow but steady drought recovery, a state surveyor on Wednesday found several feet of snow in the same Sierra Nevada meadow that was bare and brown just a year ago.
The depth of the snowpack was declared to be just below average, a huge improvement from last year, but still far from enough to declare the drought over.
