http://www.newsweek.com/sierra-nevada-california-snowpack-storm-danger-1772912 > The winter storm that has caused extreme windy and rainy weather across the state of California has also brought much more snow than normal on the Sierra Nevada mountain range. > "As of today, California's snowpack is at 215 percent of average [for this time of year] with a lot of the snow falling in the southern Sierra Nevada, where it has been needed the most," Andrew Schwartz, the lead scientist and manager at the Central Sierra Snow Laboratory, UC Berkeley, told Newsweek.