Was just looking at the California Snow Survey page.

The top item under "Announcements" reads as follows:

Quote:
The Department of Water Resources (DWR) will conduct this winter's second snow survey on February 1. One focus of attention will be the manual survey scheduled for 11 a.m. off Highway 50 near Echo Summit This and other manual surveys up and down the state as well as electronic readings from remote sensors will determine the water content in the snowpack. Electronic readings today indicate that water content in the statewide snowpack is just 38 percent of normal. That is 23 percent of the average April 1 reading, when the snowpack is normally at its peak before the spring melt. Still, this is an improvement over results of this winter's January 3 survey, which recorded snowpack water content at 19 percent of normal for that date, and only 7 percent of the average April 1 reading.

So it looks like they will be doing the second manual snow survey today, which when combined with the electronic readings, will produce a second set of water content percentages that may or may not differ from the 38%/23% estimate mentioned in the above quote.

Here is the post (also under "Announcements") from the January 3 snow survey:

Quote:
First Snow Survey of 2012 Shows Dry Conditions Snow surveyors today reported that California's mountain snowpack is among the driest for the date on record.
Manual and electronic readings today record the snowpack's statewide water content at 19 percent of the January 3 average. That is only 7 percent of the average April 1 measurement, when the snowpack is normally at its peak before the spring melt.

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