'It's so awe-inspiring just to be here and see the amount of waterfalls.'
are sending water gushing in a way that’s rarely, if ever, seen coming off the park’s hallowed stone walls, creating new waterfalls across Yosemite Valley.” and usually gets the best from its many falls in May or June, during peak snow runoff. That’s not the case right now.
“It sounds like an airplane is taking off inside Yosemite Valley,” Cory Goehring, lead naturalist at Yosemite Conservancy, told SFGATE. California is having a historic rainy season, with atmospheric river after atmospheric river. The storms have supercharged world-renowned waterfalls like Yosemite Falls, Vernal Fall and Bridalveil Fall, created new ones and brought to life ultrarare waterfalls that hardly make appearances.
It’s estimated that about 10 new drainages or seasonal waterfalls, which are officially called “ephemeral waterfalls,” have appeared in Yosemite Valley since the major rains started, Goehring said. The new waterfalls and drainages seem to come and go as the storms do, he added. While some stay for a few days, others have stuck the landing longer during the length of the current wet streak.
“With this weather pattern coming in, we’re seeing lots and lots of water in the Sierra,” he said. “As much as we love it to be snow, we are seeing the snow line at 7,000 to 8,000 feet, which allowed a lot of water in the form of rain to come down to Yosemite Valley.”This includes everything from an unnamed stream of water spilling over the valley cliff to Royal Arch Cascade on the west side of Yosemite Valley, a normally quiet meadow-side sliver that’s roaring like it never has before.
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