While California gets snowed under with up to 8 feet of fresh snow, this study has just been published. Timing is everything.
Source: NOHRSC
New study: Snowpack levels show dramatic decline in western states
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
CORVALLIS, Ore. – A new study of long-term snow monitoring sites in the western United States found declines in snowpack at more than 90 percent of those sites – and one-third of the declines were deemed significant.
Since 1915, the average snowpack in western states has declined by between 15 and 30 percent, the researchers say, and the amount of water lost from that snowpack reduction is comparable in volume to Lake Mead, the West’s largest manmade reservoir. The loss of water storage can have an impact on municipal, industrial and agricultural usage, as well as fish and other animals.
Results of the study are being published this week in NPJ Climate and…
View original post 684 more words
Climate Collections 