Climate change will push snow higher in California's Sierra Nevada by the second half of the century, bringing more winter rain and faster mountain runoff.
Crew members in blue jumpsuits stared at computer screens that revealed their hidden target miles below: a powerful atmospheric river that was churning across the Pacific Ocean toward California.
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