The 1997 flooding in CA was mostly due to this issue of warm rain + snowmelt, so searching around for information about that might be good. This guy seems to h

The 1997 flooding in CA was mostly due to this issue of warm rain + snowmelt, so searching around for information about that might be good. This guy seems to have testified about this flooding damage and claims 30 inches of rain around Oroville, with 18 inches of coincident melting, thus exceeding their worst-case scenario. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_fOdaNTppI&feature=youtu.be&t=7991 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_fOdaNTppI&feature=youtu.be...