Most of the valley at the heart of Yosemite National Park will close to visitors this weekend in a rare shutdown prompted by forecasts of floods from rapid snowmelt.
The agency said reservations for lodging and campgrounds would be automatically canceled and refunded.
The warm spell is expected to hasten a spring thaw following record winter snowfall in parts of the Sierra Nevada range. Heavy runoff down mountain slopes could send already swollen rivers spilling over their banks.Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, said in a YouTube presentation on Monday that a “big melt” had arrived.
Anderson told reporters he expects any snow melt flooding to be less severe than the deluge that resulted from Pacific storms in March. “This weather whiplash is what the climate crisis looks like,” Governor Gavin Newsom said while visiting the Tulare Basin Tuesday.
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