Yosemite to close: Flooding fears from CA's massive melting snowpack to shut down the national park. The heat wave hazard now on ABC7
Many areas of the state received 700 inches of snow in total over the winter season. But the melting snowpack is posing a serious flooding threat to Central California.
"As a consequence, we not only need to maintain our vigilance, but we can't be impatient in terms of the impending floods and the damage that will occur here in a very short order."Most of Yosemite National Park, for example, will be temporarily closed starting Friday due to that forecast of flooding.
Spring weather is quickly melting huge amounts of snow that accumulated in mountains from a series of epic winter storms.
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