“…Hydroclimatic extremes in the western United States are often linked to spring snowmelt, particularly during rain‐on‐snow (ROS) events (Berghuijs et al, ; Kampf & Lefsky, ; Kattelmann, ; Marks et al, ; McCabe et al, ; Waylen & Woo, ; Yan et al, ; Yan, Sun, Wigmosta, Skaggs, Hou, & Leung, ). Berghuijs et al () explored the dominant flood‐generating mechanisms across the continental United States and found that snowmelt and ROS events were more robust predictors of the flooding response than rainfall over the western United States.…”