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Californias snowpack: Now zero percent of normala worst case scenario for states water supply
2015-05-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Slate: California's current megadrought hit a shocking new low this week: On Thursday, the state's snowpack officially ran out. At least some measurable snowpack in the Sierra mountains usually lasts all summer. But this year, its early demise means that runoff from the mountains--which usually makes up the bulk of surface water for farms and cities during the long summer dry season--will be essentially non-existent. To be clear: there's still a bit of snow left, and some water will be released from reservoirs...
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'It's a tinderbomb' - Pacific Northwest faces major wildfire risk due to low snowpack
2015-05-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Snow-free mountains and a recent drought declaration mean that Washington state is facing an extraordinarily risky wildfire season, according to one of the state's top forest officials. "Over the years, people have become fond of referring to Western forests as tinderboxes," State Forester Aaron Everett of the Washington Department of Natural Resources said yesterday. "Our forest is not a tinderbox, it's a 'tinderbomb.' It's sprinkled with gasoline and ringed with dynamite." Washington Gov....
Low Snowpack Raising Drought Concerns Oregon & Washington
2015-05-18 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: While drought conditions in California and the southwestern U.S. have been dominating news headlines, Oregon and Washington could also soon be facing dangerously dry conditions due to low snowpack levels, as these photos show. Although the region has seen several months with average or just-below average precipitation, unusually warm temperatures on land and offshore led to most of that moisture arriving in the form of rain rather than snow. Like many parts of the western U.S. and Canada, the Pacific...
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California drought: LADWP's Owens Valley pumping might suffer without snowpack runoff
2015-04-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KPCC: A possible consequence of another dry winter in California: the water supplies Los Angeles can take from Inyo County may be limited. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has oversight of the water it derives from the area. Today, it releases its plan for pumping groundwater out of the Owens Valley over the next six months. In wet times -- as in the winter of 2011-2012 -- about a quarter of the L.A.'s water supply can come from Owens Valley's below ground reservoirs. But the city's...
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9 States Report Record Low Snowpack Amid Epic Drought
2015-04-14 16:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: California gets most of the attention in drought news coverage because so much of the state is in exceptional droughtthe highest levelbut 72 percent of the Western U.S. is experiencing drought conditions, according to the latest U.S. Drought Monitor data. When Californias snowpack assessment showed that the states snowpack levels were 6 percent of normalthe lowest ever recordedit spurred Gov. Browns administration to order the first-ever mandatory water restrictions. Californias snowpack...
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