{"id":184026,"date":"2026-02-19T04:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T04:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/184026\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T04:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T04:20:08","slug":"snow-drought-helped-set-the-stage-for-deadly-california-avalanche-leading-to-unstable-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/184026\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow drought helped set the stage for deadly California avalanche, leading to unstable conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say a weekslong \u201csnow drought\u201d in Norther California\u2019s Sierra Nevada helped set the stage for Tuesday\u2019s deadly avalanche, after several feet of new snow fell on an earlier layer that had hardened.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say a weekslong \u201csnow drought\u201d in Norther California\u2019s Sierra Nevada helped set the stage for Tuesday\u2019s deadly avalanche, after several feet of new snow fell on an earlier layer that had hardened.<\/p>\n<p>                    Published [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]<br \/>\n                    \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                Add AP News on Google <\/p>\n<p>        Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.<\/p>\n<p>            Share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Experts say a weekslong \u201csnow drought\u201d in Norther California\u2019s Sierra Nevada helped set the stage for Tuesday\u2019s deadly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[58756,7,9,8,18,36180,974,88,86845,19],"class_list":["post-184026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-avalanches","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-general-news","tag-media-api-video","tag-national","tag-san-jose","tag-shannan-moon","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}