After a remarkable series of winter storms, California water officials reported Monday in their April snow survey the Sierra snowpack is among the largest on record, dating back to the 1950s. The ...

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Snow is melting earlier, and more rain is falling instead of snow in the mountain ranges of the Western U.S. and Canada, leading to a leaner snowpack that could impact agriculture, wildfire risk and ...

A heavy snowpack is fun for skiers and sledders, and it also acts like an open-air storage tank that melts away to provide water for drinking, irrigation and other purposes during dry months. But ...

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A record snow drought across the Western United States is draining mountain snowpack to historic lows, setting up a spring season defined by shrinking water supplies, strained reservoirs, and elevated ...

Even as winter arrived in the East this week, with treacherous snow and an impending Arctic cold snap, much of the West and its major river basins are still entrenched in warm and dry conditions. It’s ...

Learn more about the snow drought impacting the western U.S. and what that means for vital water sources. Lake Mead and Lake Powell could be in for another record year for low water levels as a snow ...

DENVER – Snowfall forecasts for the West's mountains are critically important this winter after last year's unusually heavy snow helped improve the region's long-simmering water crisis, including ...