California's recent spate of epic Pacific storms has blanketed the Sierra Nevada range in a snowpack at or above record levels, state water resource officials said on Monday at a measuring station where less than 3 inches was documented last April.
The bounty of mountain snow, on which California has long relied as a critical natural storehouse of fresh water during dry weather, comes as welcome relief after three years of record drought that had still gripped the state a few months ago.
The same storms dumped paralyzing loads of snow in the Sierras and upper elevations of California's coastal mountains, leaving some ski areas such as Mammoth Springs buried almost up to the rooftops of winter cabins. It was the third-highest level documented there since the surveys began in 1941 at Phillips, where last April DWR officials stood on a small patch of snow to measure just 2.5 inches of snow. The highest was 150.7 inches in 1983.
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