I talked to a friend driving from Redding to Mt. Shasta

 I asked him if the small storms dropping snow in Mt. Shasta and the Sierras had made Shasta Lake's water level rise?

He said even with the storms it was lower than it was about 45 days ago when I was last in Mt. Shasta which is actually terrible news because the level of the lake is lower than any spring I have ever seen it. The level might be more normal if this was  Fall or late Summer but it's obviously the worst drought in my lifetime hitting Mt. Shasta and Shasta Lake this year. It is the driest since 1871 for January to March throughout most of the state. Since January to March is when we get most of our precipitation this is a real disaster of epic proportions for California on multiple levels. The real disaster is likely going to be from about July or August on when there is no snow melt to fill rivers or reservoirs at all. 

We are expecting two more storms this week where I live on the coast near San Francisco but they will in no way make up for all the rain that didn't come January to March this year. Maybe if we keep getting storms into May and June it might help a little.