Very dry weather in California in January and February has wiped out surplus snow levels in the Sierra Nevada, with a monthly survey conducted this week finding that the snowpack is now at about two-thirds of normal.

The state’s Department of Water Resources conducted Tuesday’s survey at Phillips Station near South Lake Tahoe and found a snow depth of 35 inches and a snow water equivalent of 16 inches — about 68 percent of average for that location on or around the start of March.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.