Valley Tribune: A string of late-winter storms was not sufficient to knock out the states three-year drought, leaving critical snowpack levels in the Sierra Nevada two-thirds below normal and predictions of a gloomy summer for farmers and many urban communities, state water managers said Tuesday. Though the Northern California snowpack rose from 27 percent of average on March 1 to 32 percent, hopes for a March miracle were dashed as surveyors carrying hand-held probes climbed down from the snow-covered slopes...