Posted on 05/09/2024 11:07:50 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The effects of a “snow drought” are still plaguing parts of the West, after a stretch of warm, dry weather last month accelerated the season’s snowmelt, federal meteorologists reported.
While California’s Sierra Nevada has received sufficient snow this season to escape such a designation, the same cannot be said for areas in the northern Rocky Mountains and Washington State, according to an update issued Wednesday.
In those areas, which are enduring “the most severe snow drought,” snowpack at many lower elevations has melted one to four weeks early, per the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS).
“Western snowmelt season is well underway,” the meteorologists stated.
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OMG!!!! What the climate/weather blesses folks in some area it takes away in some other area - that is the NATURAL COURSE of the climate/weather.
The coldest, wettest and snowiest winters/springs in decades is proof of Global Warming.
Yeah, weather......
There’s always got to be a catastrophe for the leftists to be Chicken Little over.
It’ll average out.
Snow drought??? LOL. The weather fearmongers have a new term to try to terrify the public into clicking on their sites.
Be on the alert, there’s local warming going on out there. Except for localities where it’s not going on.
Total BS.
California had a well above average season after the biggest year in 70 years last year.
Utah the same. Colorado similar and still getting snow.
There is no drought of any kind in CA, UT, CO and southern Idaho.
The Northwest was a little low this year as was Montana. But it’s ben snowing all across Montana for the last two days and the mountains look like December.
This is stupid noise from a DC journo who has probably never been West of Dulles.
She is trying to revive climate hysteria but most people out hee are realiIng that after the last two years, its nonsense.
California has a ocean to tap with desalination plants they only have about 6 so far.
Nothing to get confused about OH WAIT it’s California.
A snow drought ... oh that’s why all my snow he/she/its died of thirst.
“the same cannot be said for areas in the northern Rocky Mountains and Washington State”
What a joke, it rains there almost every day. A low snow year means no floods or mudslides. The horror.
The dim bulb barely pubescent reporterette is what you’d expect.
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