Roger Gauthier, a hydrologist with the U.S.Army Corps of Engineers said even heavy snowfall in January and February may not be enough to replenish the water lost.
The spores are grains from flowering plants and there was so much of it recently in part of North Carolina that it looked like a heavy snowfall when caught on a man`s home security cameras.
What's unique about this is it's pulling in moisture from the Pacific Ocean from an atmospheric river, and that is going to translate to very heavy rain and very heavy snowfall across the mountainous regions.
The problem is there's a lot of side streets that are still blocked off because of the snow, and many of the residents telling me that that is why they can't leave their homes.
More than 65 million people across 29 states from as far west as California to as far east as Maine were under winter weather alerts, warning of heavy snow, severe icing, extreme cold.