Temperatures in the San Joaquin Valley will climb to the high 80s and mid-90s this week, melting deep Sierra snowpack and triggering potential floods.
Hayley Smith
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California has so much snow that flood danger will last through the year
State officials have released preliminary floodoing forecast for the San Joaquin Valley and Tulare Lake Basin due to a historic snowpack.
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Snowmelt flood risk to last for months, experts say
While temperatures are expected to hit the 80s in the Central Valley in the coming days, the most significant threat of snowmelt is still weeks away.
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California’s snowpack is among the deepest ever. Now get ready for perilous ‘big melt’
The snowpack is so deep that it currently contains roughly 30 million acre-feet of water — more water than Lake Mead, the nation’s largest reservoir.
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Newsom rolls back California drought restrictions after remarkably wet winter
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s decision to rescind some of the most severe restrictions comes after drenching storms eased extreme drought conditions across the state.
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Wild storm hits California: The Fujiwhara effect, a bomb cyclone, even a landspout, tornado warnings
As Tuesday’s storm approached Santa Cruz County and the Bay Area, the system developed two “eyes,” or areas of low pressure, that danced around each other and intensified dangerous winds.
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Death toll rises to 5 as wild California storm passes, leaving heightened flood risk
The remarkable “bomb cyclone” storm is losing energy as it moves southeast, but it could still cause damage and flooding, especially in the already soaked Central Valley.
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As California drought retreats, threat of spring flooding rises
Though recent storms have cut California’s drought by half, record snowpack will increase the threat of spring flooding, forecasters say.
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New storm could bring more peril to California rivers already hit by deadly flooding
As yet another atmospheric river barrels toward California, residents brace for the threat of engorged rivers and overtopped reservoirs.
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Santa Cruz County no longer in drought conditions after storms, report says
Conditions in Santa Cruz County are now “abnormally dry,” the level between no drought and moderate drought, according to the latest estimate from the U.S. Drought Monitor. With an enormous snowpack, the Sierra Nevada are also not considered to be in drought as all of California has seen unusually heavy precipitation since late December.