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Last week several bomb cyclones hit the West Coast of the United States with record rains, floods and even snowfall in the highest parts. However, the amount of water that fell in Yosemite National Park, east of San Francisco, California, was enough to rekindle the falls of the natural area, one of the main tourist attractions.
According to the National Weather Service office in California, up to 7 inches of rain fell in the national park in the past week due to the passage of bomb cyclones . The atmospheric conditions also caused heavy snowfall in the highest sectors, a factor that also contributed to the rebirth of the waterfall.
California faced this 2021 its hottest year in 100 years and one of the worst droughts on record. So much so, that before the arrival of the bomb cyclones from the Pacific, only approximately half an inch of rain had been recorded from April to October .
That situation caused the main reservoirs on the West Coast to drop to critical levels and wildfires to burn more than 2 million acres during the summer.
“We don’t have any direct measurements, but the sensors suggest that a few feet of snow fell on the higher areas. The snow level for much of the storm was high, causing rivers and streams to increase substantially “, Said the administrators of Yosemite National Park on their official Facebook account this Tuesday.