The snowpack above the Kings River is puny, but farm water officials are still holding out hope for storms to ease the dry conditions.

Surveyors this week took a look and discovered water content was 25% of what they would expect to see on April 1.

Kings River Watermaster Steve Haugen said: "If this were a normal year, our snowpack right now should be at 65% of the April 1 average."

Haugen said if the season produces average rain and snow over the next two months, there's still time to get the snowpack up to 65% to 70% of average.

The Kings data will be used by the California Department of Water Resources to predict the runoff this spring and summer. The prediction should be made some time this month.