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Record heat melts Sierra snowpack early, raising California water supply concerns

A RECORD-BREAKING HEAT WAVE is scalding California, with major consequences for the state’s most important reservoir: its snowpack.  Providing about a third of the state’s water supply, the Sierra Nevada snowpack is a vital source of spring and summer runoff that refills reservoirs when the state needs the water most.  But a warm wet storm followed February’s […]

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