Reservoirs across California recently received good news only weeks after a late January snowpack update from the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) sparked concern. … The state of California’s snowpack worsened through January, with another DWR snowpack survey showing the statewide snowpack average at only 65 percent on January 31. However, recent winter weather activity across much of the state during the first half of February helped those levels recover, according to a social media post from the National Weather Service (NWS) office in Sacramento, California, that was made earlier this week.

Other snowpack and water supply news across the West:

• ABC10 (Sacramento, Calif.): Big snow gains in the Sierra after February storms
• Gephardt Daily (Utah): Utah’s snowpack raises concerns for water managers; report worst totals in southwest region since 1980
• KSL (Salt Lake City, Utah): Utah’s next storm to give snowpack additional boost, could create valley snow 
• The Sentinel (Hanford, Calif.): Storm boosts runoff