The water in California’s mountain snowpack is just shy of average as spring begins, but a winter storm set to hit the Sierra Nevada in the coming days will offer a boost.
Nearly all of the state’s reservoirs are above their historic capacity and the biggest ones, including Shasta and Oroville in the north, are more than 80% full, state data shows. Three storms are poised to hit Northern California this week and next after an already wet winter and the state also has been able to count on water stored up during the past two years of ample rain and snow, experts said.
