Climate Central: When news broke of California's record low snow earlier this week, it wasn't a surprise this year was a recordbreaker. The real shock was just how low the snowpack had dwindled.
Weak snowfall and downright balmy temperatures drove the snowpack down to just 6 percent of normal on April 1, a mark that "obliterates' the previous record, one official remarked. The previous record low came in the winter of 1976-77 when snowpack was 25 percent of normal, and was matched at the end of last winter.
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