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Heat Wave Melting Record Snowpack in Northern California
NBC Bay Area ^ | Apr 30, 2017

Posted on 05/01/2017 9:39:11 AM PDT by nickcarraway

Forecasters expect at least one California river to hit flood stage later this week as a heat wave melts record snowpack in the Sierra Nevada.

Forecasters with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Sunday they expect the Merced River in Yosemite National Park to go about a foot over its banks on Wednesday.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcbayarea.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Weather
KEYWORDS: drought; floods
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1 posted on 05/01/2017 9:39:11 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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Heat Wave Melting Record Snowpack in Northern California

This is otherwise known as May.

2 posted on 05/01/2017 9:42:12 AM PDT by Flick Lives
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To: Flick Lives
This is otherwise known as May.

What were they expecting, that the snow pack would never melt?

3 posted on 05/01/2017 9:44:20 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: nickcarraway

As if there is anything unusual about this.


4 posted on 05/01/2017 9:44:24 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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As we all know, cold weather is just weather, but hot weather is climate change.


5 posted on 05/01/2017 9:44:42 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Some people consider government to be a necessary evil, others their personal Ponzi scheme.)
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6 posted on 05/01/2017 9:50:58 AM PDT by Paladin2
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Oroville Dam catastrophe Redux in slow motion.
7 posted on 05/01/2017 9:54:04 AM PDT by spokeshave (In the Thatch Weave,..Trump's Wing Man is Truth)
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To: nickcarraway

If Hillary had won, the headline would be “Yosemite Park Waterfalls At Rare and Spectacular Levels - Go Now!”


8 posted on 05/01/2017 10:05:27 AM PDT by muleskinner
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It’s Karma. The earth is protesting California’s arrogance in the belief it will control the climate.


9 posted on 05/01/2017 10:11:50 AM PDT by Wuli
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85F is not a heat wave outside the San Francisco Peninsula.


10 posted on 05/01/2017 10:11:54 AM PDT by Thud
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Ahhhh,, the big buildup.. and now the flush.. secure the manure ponds of Stinkymental, MoonBeam is about to get another shot at disaster.. and loving it. Its all about climate change , yaknow.


11 posted on 05/01/2017 10:24:34 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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Yeah? I was in Midwesto this weekend.

It felt like a heatwave.

then again, winter is my favorite time of year. Love the cold....


12 posted on 05/01/2017 10:47:11 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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Heat Wave? This is Heat Wave..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTKFR3ra2ts


13 posted on 05/01/2017 10:47:48 AM PDT by Davy Crocket
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I can’t see it, but that has to be Marilyn.

Beat me by seconds.


14 posted on 05/01/2017 10:52:46 AM PDT by DannyTN
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Before the Holland, Dozier, Holland song, Irving Berlin had a song called Heat Wave
15 posted on 05/01/2017 11:08:02 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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How’s the Oroville Dam holding up? Ready for another surge?


16 posted on 05/01/2017 11:15:14 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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I can’t see it, but that has to be Marilyn.

Joan Osborne


17 posted on 05/01/2017 11:21:32 AM PDT by Davy Crocket
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This is the Fabulous Funk Brothers with Joan Osborne singing..

They invented the Motown sound..


18 posted on 05/01/2017 11:23:49 AM PDT by Davy Crocket
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Hopefully California has had the foresight to have catch basins or lakes ready to catch the melting snowpack. Just
in case they have another need to water their crops.


19 posted on 05/01/2017 12:05:55 PM PDT by tillacum (I'm still a Deplorable.)
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I'll see your Joan Osborne and Irving Berlin and raise you Marilyn Monroe.


20 posted on 05/01/2017 12:20:27 PM PDT by DannyTN
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