
Frank Gehrke, chief of the California Cooperative Snow Surveys for the Department of Water Resources, checks the ground for moisture while conducting the final snow survey of the season at Phillips near Echo Summit, Calif., Thursday, May 1, 2014. No snow was found at the Phillips station and the DWR reported that manual and electronic readings of the statewide snowpacks's water content showed it to be only 18 percent of average for this time of the year. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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