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B.C. Snowpack Hits Record Low For May

Summer hit B.C. hard and early this year.  With warmer temperatures and below average snowfall, this year’s snowpack is looking meager.  The provincial snowfall average was only 53% of normal this year- which is the lowest level since 1980 when record-keeping began.     Hydrologist Tobi Gardner of the River Forecast Center comments on the snowpack, “Basically the North just […]

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Keenan Grady | May 12, 2016
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VIDEO: 2016 Arctic Sea Ice Hits Another Wintertime Record Low

According to NASA, On March 24, Arctic sea ice extent peaked at 5.607 million square miles (14.52 million square kilometers), a new record low winter maximum extent in the satellite record that started in 1979. It is just smaller than the previous record low maximum extent of 5.612 million square miles (14.54 million square kilometers) that occurred last year. The 13 […]

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Chris Wallner | March 30, 2016
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California’s Reservoirs In Trouble | Desperately Need a Big Winter in 2013/14

“January through May 2013 were California’s driest in about 90 years of recordkeeping.” – Pete Lucero of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation California’s reservoirs are hurting. Most California reservoirs are currently holding 1/3 to 1/2 of their capacities or lower. 2 dry winters in a row has left California’s reservoirs in a dangerously low state. If we don’t have a big winter in 2013/14, our reservoirs are going to be in trouble. Dwindling reservoirs should be a wake-up call to Californians, said Mark Cowin, director of the state Department of Water […]

SnowBrains | November 11, 2013
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