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Much of the famed valley at California’s Yosemite National Park will be temporarily closed starting Friday due to a forecast of flooding as rising temperatures melt the Sierra Nevada’s massive snowpack

California farmers worry that melting snow could inundate them with a new round of flooding.

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Some residents along the Upper Mississippi River were evacuated from their homes this week while others scrambled to prepare for near-record flooding

While minor spring floods aren’t unusual, this season could be inundated from the melting of the historic snowpack

Rescue crews are set to be put on standby amid fears that a mini-heatwave will speed up Sierra Nevada snowpack melts and cause devastating flooding to communities such as those in the Tulare Basin

Downstream communities under threat as state's historic snowpack melts.