Daniel Swain in the Washington Post—Historic California snow starts to melt, but is ‘just a taste’ of what may come

The San Joaquin Valley and Tulare Basin are the areas of highest concern for flooding

“In the southern Sierra right now, the snowpack upstream of certain reservoirs is enough to fill those reservoirs multiple times over — that’s a big deal,” said Daniel Swain, a UCLA climate scientist, in an online update Tuesday.