California’s drought isn’t fully in the past, but the state is beginning to bounce back. According to recent research from the University of Colorado-Boulder, California may have recouped 37 percent of the state’s five-year snow-water deficit because of the storms that have dumped on the Sierra Nevadas in the last month.Researchers at the university’s Center for Water Earth Science and Technology used NASA satellite data to estimate that January snowstorms deposited about 17.5 million acre-feet of water on the Sierra Nevada range. That’s more than 120 percent of the range’s typical annual snow accumulation when comparing it to pre-drought averages.On
