Warming Weather Rapidly Melting Massive Sierra Snowpack, Prompting Flood Risk

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Northern California rivers are running high and cold as the snow melts from a drought-busting winter, and it’s proving a dangerous combination as temperatures rise.
With the deepest snowpack the region has seen in May in nearly 20 years and temperatures feeling more like early summer than spring, the Sierra snow has no place to go but downstream. Near Yosemite National Park, temperatures are expected to reach the mid-80s. The Merced River could overrun