Climate Change Largely to Blame as Study Shows Mountain Snow is on the Decline Across Western US Mountain snow is on the decline across the western US, and climate change is largely to blame, according to a new study, reports Buzzfeed. Scientists measured snowpack at nearly 700 sites spread across western mountain ranges over six decades, 1955 to 2016, and carried out many computer simulations of snowpack levels over time. Both the observations and modeling showed widespread […] Weather WeatherBrains | March 12, 2018 3 Comments