Most of California is captured in this March 23 image from NASA's Terra Satellite. The Sierra Nevada range is to the right. Snowpack there is half of normal. (Image: NASA EOSDIS Worldview) A month ago, the snowpack in California's Sierra Nevada range was looking really thin. This week, officials announced that it's in even worse shape — just as the state goes into the warm season. And for much of the rest of the West, it's not looking too much better. Manual measurements of the snowpack in the Sierra today were expected to confirm that snowpack there is at just 54 percent of average, according to the California Department of Water Resources. In late February, it stood at 66 percent.