Scary Times For California Farmers As Snowpack Hits Record Lows

The water outlook in drought-racked California just got a lot worse: Snowpack levels across the entire Sierra Nevada are now the lowest in recorded history – just 6 percent of the long-term average. That shatters the previous low record on this date of 25 percent, set in 1977 and again last year.

And it has huge implications for tens of millions of people who depend on water flowing downstream from melting snow – including the nation's most productive farming region, the California Central Valley.

Last year was already a tough...