Climate expert links recent California snowfall to warming planet

SAN FRANCISCO -- In just four days at the beginning of March, an epic blizzard dropped more than 100 inches of snow in parts of California.Any concern over California's snowpack may have, for the moment, evaporated. The Golden State's reservoirs and drinking water supplies are in good shape.Experts told CBS News Bay Area that we have not dug ourselves out of the much bigger problem: the impacts of our slowly warming planet.

'It really does highlight this conundrum that we see climate change kind of causing two counteracting forces at the same time,' Jones explained. With this blizzard, cold arctic air out of the Bering Strait made a beeline at California. On the way, it traveled over the Pacific Ocean which is warming in part because of climate change.Higher temperatures -- in the ocean and the air -- allow the atmosphere to hold more water.

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