An extremely wet beginning to the California water year has acted only as a false harbinger, weather officials say. “It’s looking more and more like we are going to experience a dry year,” said Drew Peterson, National Weather Service meteorologist. After the second snowpack survey of 2013 was measured Tuesday, officials with the California Department of Water Resources reported water content in California’s mountain snowpack is below average for the date. This comes only a month after officials were reporting snowpack conditions to be well above average. “We are off to a good water supply start for the new year, …














