Signs of drought appear to be in Western Canada for the long term
Mark Hume, Globe and Mail, June 14, 2015
"High in the Rocky Mountains along the British Columbia-Alberta divide, John Pomeroy is seeing signs of the changing climate that has brought a crippling drought to the U.S. West...."
"....This year, the Rocky Mountain snowpacks, which usually melt
slowly, releasing water well into the summer, have had “a dramatic
decline.” This past winter, those snowpacks were as low as 25 per cent
of normal measurements, and they vanished quickly in the spring.
“All our stations are free of snow now, which is the earliest we’ve seen it,” Dr. Pomeroy said. “Not only was the maximum of snow water available quite low, but the snow melted much earlier – about a month to a month and a half earlier than what we would expect....”
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“All our stations are free of snow now, which is the earliest we’ve seen it,” Dr. Pomeroy said. “Not only was the maximum of snow water available quite low, but the snow melted much earlier – about a month to a month and a half earlier than what we would expect....”
Read more here: http://bit.ly/1FlvlxS
H/T to Kevin Van Tigham
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