Snowpack in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains at a 500-year low

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By Mike GaworeckiOct 2, 2015, 5:50 pm85 pts
On April 1, California Governor Jerry Brown stood in a Sierra Nevada meadow atop parched, brown grass — at an elevation of 6,800 feet, where there would normally be five feet of snow at that time of year — and announced the state’s first-ever mandatory water restrictions. The Golden State is still in the…

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