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Winter’s alarmingly low snowpack offers a glimpse of the changing rhythm of water in the western US

  • Written by Imtiaz Rangwala, Senior Research Scientist in Climate, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
imageIn a good year, the West's mountain snowpack feeds streams and rivers well into summer.George Rose/Contributor/Getty Images News

Winter is more than just a season in the western U.S. – it is a savings account to get farms and homes through the long, dry summer ahead. As the snowpack that accumulates in the mountains through winter slowly...

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