"Even though the storms during January slightly helped out our snowpack, we're only about halfway of where we should be for this time of year," said Sean de Guzman, flood operations manager for the Department of Water Resources.
"That rain-snow transition line has been creeping up further and further compared to years past," De Guzman told reporters. "With a warming climate, we can expect that to be the new norm, where we would tend to see more rainfall where you would have typically seen snow."
De Guzman and other officials measured 29 inches of snow at Phillips Station, near South Lake Tahoe.
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