Six weeks are left in the rainy season in California “and results are mixed,” reports The Atlantic. Heavy rain and snow swept the state over the weekend, but the state “as a whole seems on track to have only an average precipitation year.”
Snowpack in the Sierra Nevada, the source of one-third of the state’s water supply, was 80 percent of normal levels after a warm February. The storms over the weekend could boost the snowpack above normal. “Rain totals have differed throughout the state this year,” says The Atlantic, citing a researcher at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography. Northern California has seen good amounts of precipitation while the Los Angeles basin is still gripped by drought.