SACRAMENTO – (INT) – The last Sierra snow pack survey of the season has been cancelled because there is none to measure. Any snow remaining from the sparse winter storms has melted away leaving bare ground, according to the State Department of Water Resources.

The snowpack normally is at its peak in early April before slowly melting in spring and early summer into streams and reservoirs to supply 30 percent of the water used by California’s cities and farms.

The DWR said that California’s snowpack water content is one-half an inch, or 3 percent of what’s normally in the snowpack as of May 1st.

Story Date: May 4, 2015