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1. California experienced the driest first two months of any year on record, raising serious concerns that the state may be headed for water shortages in 2013. The Chron reports that the Sierra snowpack is just 66 percent of normal, down from 134 percent two months ago, following a wet December. Only 2.2 inches of precipitation, on average, fell in the Sierra during January and February, breaking the previous record low of 4 inches set in 1991.
