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Jennifer Weeks
Environment + Energy Editor
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It may seem strange to ponder snow in August, but many utilities and resource managers in the West think about it year-round.
Snowpack – literally, accumulated snow in the mountains – is a critical water source that keeps cities, farms and forests hydrated well into the warm months, if there’s enough of it.
In a newly published study, environmental scientist Adrienne Marshall and colleagues project that “snow droughts,” or multiyear stretches with low snow, could become much more common across the West as climate change intensifies. That could mean drinking water shortages, drier forests and brown ski slopes – an unwelcome sight in any season.
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A valuable resource: Snowpack on Oregon’s Mt. Hood.
USDA NRCS/Spencer Miller
Adrienne Marshall, University of Idaho
New research forecasts that climate change will make multiyear stretches with low snow levels more common across western North America – bad news for water managers, farmers, foresters and skiers.
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Jeffrey W Ladewig, University of Connecticut
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