article_snippet.sent: The Sierra Nevada snowpack is at 5 percent of normal, the lowest since record-keeping began in 1950.
article_snippet.sent: But with hardly any snow recorded during the last survey of the year, there will be little runoff to refill half-empty reservoirs.
article_snippet.sent: No snow: Surveyors on Wednesday found the lowest snow level in the Sierra Nevada snowpack in 65 years of record-keeping, marking a fourth consecutive year of vanishing snow that California depends on to melt into rivers and replenish reservoirs .