The high temperatures, breaking 80 degrees at many snowy peaks, were expected to subside by Monday. But that won’t put an end to flood concerns.
Even as the spring heat wave that’s thawed California’s record Sierra Nevada snowpack comes to a close, communities across the Central Valley and the state’s northeastern mountains are continuing to prepare for potentially dangerous flooding.
The high temperatures, breaking 80 degrees at many snowy peaks, were expected to subside by Monday. But that won’t put an end to flood concerns triggered by this week’s anticipated ““The rate of melting may not be as significant, but it will continue,” said Scott Roe, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Sacramento. “There will be high flows in waterways for the foreseeable future.
But the more significant flood danger is in the Tulare Basin of the Central Valley, where the long-dry Tulare Lake — once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River — has been replenished after reservoirs failed to contain this winter’s rains. That flooded agricultural communities and farmland but returned natural habitat to the flood plain, a boon for native fish and wildlife that have struggled after years of drought.
In Kings County, residents in low-lying areas near the rising rivers have been placing sandbags on their properties and moving items to higher ground to prepare. With cooler weather expected, some have breathed a sigh of relief, said Kings County Supervisor Doug Verboon
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