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Snowpack shows huge gains from recent storms

The Department of Water Resources (DWR) conducted the third snow survey of the season at Phillips Station on March 3. The manual survey recorded 116.5 inches of snow depth and a snow water equivalent of 41.5 inches, which is 177 percent of average for this location. The snow water equivalent measures the amount of water contained…