Correct. Sierra snowpack accounts for roughly 1/3rd of California's total water storage; without heavy snow in the mountains, the long-term prospects for drough

Correct. Sierra snowpack accounts for roughly 1/3rd of California's total water storage; without heavy snow in the mountains, the long-term prospects for drought relief are pretty grim. And heavy snow requires both wet and cold conditions, and cold conditions in the west coast requires that the jet stream suddenly change from its current shape with north-south directional anomalies back to a more uniform circular shape, and so far that isn't happening -- partly because the arctic would probably have to get colder for that to happen. I'm not generally a climate/weather alarmist, at least not in the short term, but I do think that the conditions we're seeing now in California will be considered really pleasant in 50 years or less, and in the short term, things are going to be really painful as people adjust.