Yes, you read the headline right. The heat wave that has hit the state this week is drying out everything in the Valley, but up in the mountains the high temperatures are causing a different problem: rapidly melting snowpack. June snowpack runoff is extremely high, according to David Rizzardo of the California Department of Water Resources, with rates this year ranging from 109 percent of average (inflow to Shasta Lake) to 257 percent of average (Kings River).
Heat wave brings excess water
