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Water Cooler / Re: Drought in the Southwest: watch how Lake Mead has shrunk in recent decades
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>> 205%
The bigger question is what percentage of the annual total is that? Answer, 100%. In other words, if we add nothing to the snowpack and receive as much snow as melts off between now and May 1, we will have a "normal" year.
https://www.kron4.com/news/snowfall-hits-100-percent-of-the-annual-average-in-californias-sierra-nevada-mountains/
Whether the drought is "over" or not is a somewhat different question. This may be a brief interlude in a long mega-drought or possibly turning the corner on a decade plus of drought. Not likely the latter.
The bigger question is what percentage of the annual total is that? Answer, 100%. In other words, if we add nothing to the snowpack and receive as much snow as melts off between now and May 1, we will have a "normal" year.
https://www.kron4.com/news/snowfall-hits-100-percent-of-the-annual-average-in-californias-sierra-nevada-mountains/
Whether the drought is "over" or not is a somewhat different question. This may be a brief interlude in a long mega-drought or possibly turning the corner on a decade plus of drought. Not likely the latter.