Tonight there is a Flood Warning for the next two days for the Merced River coming out of Yosemite. Similarly they have had terrible drownings in the Keweah River in Sequoia National Park (3 as of yesterday) and six on the Kern River which drains to the south starting in upper Kings Canyon Park, going through the back country of Sequoia draining the slopes of Whitney as it heads due south. The flow on the Kern is described as 400 - 600% of normal for this time of year.
I spent some of last week in Kings Canyon, Sequoia and the Central Valley and the rivers coming out of the central Sierras are really running. It had spiked up to the mid 90s at the first of last week and the rivers were running as though a flooding rainstorm had just finished.
So far I’ve seen no spike in the Oroville Dam inflow.
Is spring melt in Oroville usually way behind the rivers in central California? Are they still expecting a huge inflow spike at Oroville?