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April 03, 2020

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hollyroller@gmail.com

You may think with all the Rain/Snow we have experienced this year that there would be a much larger snow pack. WEird.

Joe

Here's a study that sounds even scarier than I imagine, and that's hard to do:

Study: US West's megadrought turning into the worst in 1,200 years

KENSINGTON, Maryland (AP) — A two-decade-long dry spell that has parched much of the western United States is turning into one of the deepest megadroughts in the region in more than 1,200 years, a new study found.

What’s happening now is “a drought bigger than what modern society has seen,” said study lead author A. Park Williams, a bioclimatologist at Columbia University.

University of Michigan environment dean Jonathan Overpeck, who studies southwestern climate and was not part of the study, calls it “the first observed multidecadal megadrought in recorded U.S. history.”

Although last year was wet, past megadroughts have had wet years and the recent rain and snow was not nearly enough to make up for the deep drought years before, Williams said.

The U.S. drought monitor puts much of Oregon, California, Colorado, Utah and Nevada and good chunks of New Mexico, Arizona and Idaho in abnormally dry, moderate or severe drought conditions.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Study-Warming-makes-US-West-megadrought-worst-in-15205571.php

Joe

I've just added the chart showing how dry this season has been.

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