NEW YORK — Extreme drought, the second-highest level of drought, has been nearly eliminated in the state of California in the wake of storms caused by atmospheric rivers slamming the state over the last several weeks.
However, the extreme influx of moisture was contained to west of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, which does little to alleviate the dwindling water levels at Lake Mead and Lake Powell, the two largest reservoirs in the country.
Parts of California have received more than 3 feet of rain since Christmas, while the Sierra Nevada Mountains have had a record snowiest start to the season, already surpassing seasonal averages. The rain is helpful, but snowpack is even more critical -- even preferable -- because it melts slowly and is better absorbed by the ground and also later contributes to the"water bank" for the spring and summer, Nate Stephenson, a scientist emeritus at the U.S. Geological Survey's Western Ecological Research Center, told ABC News.
Some of the largest reservoirs in California are also beginning to recover, but they remain nowhere near their typical average for this time of year.
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