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Snow drought helped set the stage for deadly California avalanche, leading to unstable conditions

Experts say a weekslong “snow drought” in Norther California's Sierra Nevada helped set the stage for Tuesday's deadly avalanche, after several feet of new snow fell on an earlier layer that had hardened

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