Skiers and snowboarders are keeping their fingers crossed for snow as the Sierra snowpack is off to another slow start.
The Lake Tahoe Basin snowpack on Thursday was only 2 percent of average for the date.
The situation is similar to last year, when the Tahoe Basin snowpack was only 1 percent of normal on the same date.
But subsequent powerful storms, particularly in January, blanketed the Sierra in white.
Tahoe's snowpack ended at about 85 percent of average for the season, a second below-average year in a row.
The National Weather Service was calling for no chance of snow at least through Wednesday.
After two relatively dry years, water officials say a healthy snowpack is critical this winter for future water supplies.
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