California Snow Totals Are Way Down This Year, After Drought Breaking Snowfall in 2017.

In early 2017, California was coming out of a historic drought that lasted for five years.  Heavy rainfall during the wet season filled California's reservoirs.  But a big factor in drought recovery, was the snowfall during the winter of 2016-2017.  Last winter, an abundance of snow fell across the Sierra Nevada.  But this year, it's a very different story.  Snowpack is well below average. Checking out the numbers in the two images below, most of the Sierra Nevada snow levels are running below 40% of normal.  Snow water equivalent values in Lake Tahoe are only 27% of normal.