Officials: Epic California snowpack among biggest on record

By JOHN ANTCZAK
Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California water officials say this year’s epic snowpack in the Sierra Nevada could top records. They also expect significant flooding when it melts. Just months after the state was dangerously deep in drought, its reservoirs are filling, with the snowpack yet to melt. The water content of the statewide snowpack as reported by a network of automated sensors on Monday is 237% of average to date. That’s the same figure as the April 1952 record. But the state is waiting for more data because changes in surveying make it difficult to compare results across decades with precision.