Landslides too due to the rapid melt of the snowpack.

Mike

Hiking in California’s Sierra is about to get a little bit less comfortable, and a lot more itchy, due to the emergence of “snowmelt mosquitoes.” A spike in temperature paired with high Sierra snowpack is causing swarms of mosquitoes to hatch at the same time, leading to an atypical bug season. Joel Buettner, the general manager of the Placer Mosquito and Vector Control District, told California’s KRCA that the area “went from no mosquitoes because they were under snow to mosquitoes hatching.”
— Read on www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ready-itchy-mosquito-surge-hitting-211139300.html