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With an atmospheric river bringing rain and snow to California this week, the state’s mountains began to change from summer brown to winter white.

Mammoth Mountain expected around 2 feet of snow by Tuesday night. The UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab forecast up to a foot at its location near Lake Tahoe, lab director Andrew Schwartz said.

The snow arrived at a moment when snowpack levels were down to nearly zero across the Sierra Nevada range after melting off over the summer. In addition, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared last week that La Niña conditions had arrived . The ocean phenomenon is a driving factor behind drought.

But experts told The T

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