https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/30/plentiful-early-season-sierra-snowpack-signals-remarkable-turnaround-amid-historic-drought/

A series of record-setting blizzards in recent weeks that buried roads, snarled holiday traffic and even temporarily shut down ski resorts have combined to offer California a glimpse of hope after two years of historic and punishing drought.

Snowpack across the Sierra Nevada appears far ahead of historical averages — an unexpected respite from years of bone-dry forecasts that has left climatologists cautiously optimistic about drought conditions improving across the state.