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FILE - In this Jan. 3, 2017, file photo, Frank Gehrke, chief of the California Cooperative Snow Surveys Program for the Department of Water Resources, plunges the survey tube into the snowpack as he conducts the first snow survey of the season at Phillips Station near Echo Summit, Calif. Nothing but good news is expected when California does its next regular Sierra snow surveys after last month's huge storms. The state snow survey on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, is important because California gets about a third of its water from Sierra runoff in typical years. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Drought-easing California snow heaviest in 22 years

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and RICH PEDRONCELLI - Associated Press

William Wright fills a few sandbags in the parking lot next to Fire Station 44 on 8th Street in Seal Beach, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017. The City of Seal Beach placed sand bags and piles of sand in several places around the city for residents to prepare for the coming winter storms. (Sam Gangwer/The Orange County Register via AP)

Rain, snow storms pummel the West; more wet weather on way

By SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press

The Latest: Sierra winds forecast to top 100 mph

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Snow Safety Patroller Ryan Evanczyk stands on the mountainside at Arapahoe Basin ski area, where he works, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, in Arapahoe, Colo. Evanczyk has had his hands full lately performing avalanche mitigation, given the large amount of recent snowfall. (AP Photo/P. Solomon Banda)

For ski resorts in Western US, too much snow is a good woe

By THOMAS PEIPERT and P. SOLOMON BANDA - Associated Press

Miguel Deniz looks up at a hillside above a slide that blocked Highway 1, just south of Fernwood in Big Sur on Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, after a storm passed through Monterey County. (David Royal/The Monterey County Herald via AP)

Weakened by drought, trees are falling in rainy California

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

City crews help local business owners fill sandbags in the Sparks Industrial Park in Sparks, Nev., Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 within a mile of the Truckee River, which is expected to experience its worst flooding this weekend in more than a decade. The mayor of the city neighboring Reno has declared a state of emergency as warmer, wet storm is expected to hit on the heels of a colder one that dumped more than 6 feet of snow on the stop of the Sierra over the past week. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)

The Latest: Closures due to expected flooding include courts

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City crews help local business owners fill sandbags in the Sparks Industrial Park in Sparks, Nev., Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 within a mile of the Truckee River, which is expected to experience its worst flooding this weekend in more than a decade. The mayor of the city neighboring Reno has declared a state of emergency as warmer, wet storm is expected to hit on the heels of a colder one that dumped more than 6 feet of snow on the stop of the Sierra over the past week. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)

Northern Nevada flood warnings bring emergency declarations

By SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press

Randy Barr and his girlfriend Jasmina Jordacevic walk along the snowy shore of Virginia Lake Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, in Reno, Nev. A winter storm has swept aside two long-standing snow records in Boise, Idaho, and is moving east as turbulent weather lined up across much of the country Thursday with watches covering large parts of the South. (Jason Bean/Reno Gazette-Journal via AP)

2 skiers caught in Sierra avalanche escape injury

By SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press

In this photo provided by Northstar California, skiers enjoy the view while riding on the Vista Express at the Northstar California resort in Truckee, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017. The Sierra Avalanche Center has issued an avalanche warning for the mountains around Lake Tahoe after a winter storm dumped nearly 2 feet of snow on area ski resorts. (Northstar California via AP)

The Latest: Heavy snow closes I-80 in Sierra

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In this photo provided by Northstar California, skiers enjoy the view while riding on the Vista Express at the Northstar California resort in Truckee, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017. The Sierra Avalanche Center has issued an avalanche warning for the mountains around Lake Tahoe after a winter storm dumped nearly 2 feet of snow on area ski resorts. (Northstar California via AP)

Storms pummel West; Oregon girl dies; I-80 closed

By SCOTT SONNER and KRISTIN J. BENDER - Associated Press

Frank Gehrke, chief of the California Cooperative Snow Surveys Program for the Department of Water Resources, plunges the survey tube into the snowpack as he conducts the first snow survey of the season at Phillips Station Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017, near Echo Summit, Calif. The survey showed the snowpack at 53 percent of normal for this site at this time of year. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

California snowpack measures low, but big storms coming

By RICH PEDRONCELLI and SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

Water officials: Mountain snowpack low, but it’s early

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press