Friday Top of the Scroll: California heat wave could speed melt of abnormal snowpack
Rainfall and snow storms boosted California’s groundwater supplies and replenished the Sierra Nevada snowpack, but scientists say dry conditions in the summer — and starting as soon as this weekend — could reverse that progress. … temperatures in California — including in San Francisco — are forecast to climb over their usual seasonal highs. That could accelerate the rate at which the state’s snowpack melts, according to Andrew Schwartz, lead scientist and station manager at the UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Laboratory …
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