California water officials say the amount of snow blanketing the Sierra Nevada is even bigger than the 2017 snowpack that pulled the state out of a five-year drought. The Department of Water Resources says as of May 30 the Sierra snowpack measured 202% of average after a barrage of wet storms throughout winter and spring. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that at this time last year, it measured 6 percent of average – making this year’s 33 times bigger than 2018.