After a winter of epic storms in California, Yosemite National Park's famous waterfalls are in full flow, its reservoirs are brimming, and the snowpack in the surrounding Sierra Nevada Mountains is well above average.
"When you have a six-week period where they're happening daily, the wildlife can't shift their habitat that quickly," she said. The storms also will not endIn his 27 years as a Yosemite park ranger, Scott Gediman has never seen so much winter snow and water in the park.
According to a California Department of Water Resources manual survey conducted on Feb. 1, statewide snowpack was almost double the average for the time of year. The snowpack supplies around 30% of California's water needs. But climate change means climate extremes, and as California experiences more severe droughts and heat waves, its occasional wet years are expected to be excessively rainy.
Mediterranean climates with rainy winters and dry, hot summers are particularly vulnerable to climate change.
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