California Braces for More Severe Weather Conditions.

A powerful storm from the Gulf of Alaska brought more wind, rain, and snow to northern California, causing heavy snow in coastal mountains and the Sierra Nevada. The storm is not expected to be as intense as the atmospheric rivers that impacted the state in recent weeks. The water content of California’s Sierra Nevada snowpack is more than double normal overall, and nearly triple in the southern Sierra. The storms have brought much-needed water, filling up the state's two largest reservoirs, Shasta and Oroville, above their historical averages. The Metropolitan Water District is bringing water from the north to fill its huge Diamond Valley Lake, a reservoir that had diminished to 60% of capacity after three years of drought.