NOAA forecasters see a respite for California
Weather forecasters with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday issued their latest outlook for the United States, and there’s at least one piece of hopeful news for a state that has already had a wild year, weather-wise: California. The gargantuan piles of snow that this winter’s powerful storms left in the Sierra Nevada have prompted concerns about the flooding that could result when all that frozen water starts to melt and head downhill. But according to NOAA’s latest forecasts, temperatures for May through July are highly likely to be in line with historical averages across California and Nevada. For May, much of California could even see cooler-than-normal conditions, the agency said. This could mean the snow’s melting would be more gradual than abrupt, more beneficial to water supplies than destructive to homes and farms.
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