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Despite the excessive rain and snow that California received in April, drought has crept back into the state, new data show.

Record heat in March melted much of the state's snowpack.

When state experts visited the Sierra Nevada on Wednesday for their annual snow survey, they found literally nothing left to measure. The snow had melted already. Preliminary data shows that this year ...