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California's 'Dismally Meager' Snowpack Signals More Drought
2015-01-31 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: After measuring California's mountain snow on Thursday, state officials described it as "dismally meager" and predicted that a fourth year of drought is on the way. Statewide, the water trapped in the form of snow is just a quarter of the amount usually found at this time of year, California's Department of Water Resources reported shortly after teams returned from measuring snow levels at Echo Summit in the Sierra Nevada mountains, southwest of Lake Tahoe. (Watch a video about new technology California...
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Oregon snowpack at record lows
2015-01-30 07:21:45| Beverages - Topix.net
Oregon's mountain snowpack, vital for farms, fish and ski resorts, is in the midst of another miserable year, posting record low depths despite normal precipitation. "We are really kind of staring climate change right in the eye right now," said Kathie Dello, associated director of the Oregon Climate Change Institute at Oregon State University.
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Oregon Snowpack at Record Lows
2015-01-30 07:07:18| Agriculture - Topix.net
Oregon's mountain snowpack, vital for farms, fish and ski resorts, is in the midst of another miserable year, posting record low depths despite normal precipitation. "We are really kind of staring climate change right in the eye right now," said Kathie Dello, associated director of the Oregon Climate Change Institute at Oregon State University.
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Loss of snowpack and glaciers in Rockies poses water threat
2014-07-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale 360: When Rocky Mountain explorer Walter Wilcox hiked up to Bow Summit in Canadas Banff National Park in 1896, he took a photo of a turquoise lake that later caught the eye of a National Geographic magazine editor. In the photo, which was eventually published, the glacier feeding the lake was just a mile upstream. Since then, the snout of Peyto Glacier has receded more than three miles from the broad valley it carved out thousands of years ago. Remnants of ancient tree trunks the glacier bulldozed...
Despite help from late-winter storms, California snowpack only 32 percent of normal
2014-04-01 21:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Valley Tribune: A string of late-winter storms was not sufficient to knock out the states three-year drought, leaving critical snowpack levels in the Sierra Nevada two-thirds below normal and predictions of a gloomy summer for farmers and many urban communities, state water managers said Tuesday. Though the Northern California snowpack rose from 27 percent of average on March 1 to 32 percent, hopes for a March miracle were dashed as surveyors carrying hand-held probes climbed down from the snow-covered slopes...
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