"Some people are scared, some aren't," said Sheila Reis, an accountant who falls into the first group. Residents are preparing for the "big melt," more or less calmy, depending on their character. It was 31☌ in Corcoran, a town of 14,000 people, which makes its living from farming and its two prisons (8,000 inmates) – and this income seems rather sparse, judging by the number of discount stores. An avalanche of water is about to burst forth from the Sierra Nevada.Īfter a winter of record rainfall and below-normal temperatures, the first heat wave of the season arrived in California's Central Valley. Those white masses clinging to the peaks are not clouds but mountains of snow. The awe-inspiring threat is there, beyond the almond trees, vineyards and peach trees that make the San Joaquin Valley so rich. If the weather is clear, and the dust from farm work doesn't get in the way, the residents of Corcoran, California, need only look up. The American West faces a new frontier: Climate change By Corine Lesnes (Corcoran, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, special correspondent) Published on June 17, 2023, at 12:55 pm (Paris), updated on July 12, 2023, at 5:03 pmįeatureIn California, Arizona and Utah, populations endure torrential downpours, heatwaves, floods and droughts in a jagged weather pattern that is symptomatic of the climate imbalance to come across the entire planet.
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