The Gray Lady, otherwise known as the New York Times, posted a photo comparison between the current Sierra Nevada snowpack and that of two years ago:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/22/us/california-measuring-snowpack.html
The difference is striking. Not that California’s out of the woods yet. The state used a lot of its groundwater to make up the shortfall two years ago, and there’s no indication of when, or if, that will be replenished.
