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Water is disappearing in the West -- and not just during the summer
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Snow melt runoff in the spring is particularly critical in California, where snow on the Sierra Mountains provides about 30% of the state's water.
The West's historic drought has many impacts, including water shortages, more severe wildfire seasons and unprecedented heat waves, to name a few. Intense droughts are a result of many factors, one of which scientists have recently began to analyze with more scrutiny: snow drought. Though the impact is most intense in the summer months, when rain is sparse and temperatures are high, droughts actually start to take shape during the winter.More Related News

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