Cascade snowpack lagging at 50% of normal as unusual warm weather stretches on

9 months ago by kinther to c/pnw

Long stretches of sunny weather don’t come often during the winter in western Washington.While the January sunshine is great for being outdoors, we don’t want

satanmat 13 points 9 months ago

We’re toast this summer… crap

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kinther 12 points 9 months ago

Not looking good for anyone who relies on snowpack for drinking/cleaning water, that's for sure.

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SacralPlexus 4 points 9 months ago

Also, the fires will be worse.

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fake_meows 1 point 9 months ago

That would be everyone?

The PNW doesn't really build artificial human-made drinking water reservoirs in most places. The typical water system depends on mountain snow slowly melting and sending water downhill where it flows into rivers and is sent through hydro turbines, irrigates crops and is tapped for drinking water. But the reservoir for summer water (when it doesn't rain) is natural mountain snow melting.

Also, wells are going dry in the pnw in summer.

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kinther 1 point 9 months ago

It was tongue in cheek - not good for anyone, you're right

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Crackhappy 2 points 9 months ago

That article is so wishy washy I could use it to wash my car.

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Tujio 2 points 9 months ago

Komo is a Sinclair rag. They have to toe the line, so they can't explicitly talk about how climate change is fucking us.

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KingGimpicus 1 point 9 months ago

Just move the cascades to Iowa. That shit isnt going to go above 0F all weekend.

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fake_meows 1 point 9 months ago

BC is at 50% https://www.onthesnow.com/...

Washington is at 35% https://www.onthesnow.com/washington/skireport

Oregon is at 41% https://www.onthesnow.com/oregon/skireport

California is at 39% https://www.onthesnow.com/california/skireport

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kinther 1 point 9 months ago

We need those water catchers from Dune ASAP

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fake_meows 2 points 9 months ago

On planet earth, we could start by planting more trees. Trees release organic compounds into the air that seed clouds and increase rain. The clouds they make cool the climate.

Trees make about 40% of the rain over land.

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kinther 1 point 9 months ago

TIL. Thanks for the link!

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