Re:Researchers forecast a hard-to-imagine West – one without...
by throw3849 on Sunday December 26, 2021 @06:13PM
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Milder winters could be good. Snow is nice but gets old very fast. No more plowing, smaller heating bills...
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Re:Researchers forecast a hard-to-imagine West – one without...
by crowbahr on Sunday December 26, 2021 @06:25PM
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The major concern is less snow on the mountain = less water in the summer.
Droughts are going to become worse in the west because of warm Winters.
Re:Researchers forecast a hard-to-imagine West – one without...
by donatj on Sunday December 26, 2021 @08:39PM
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Wont that same water just be rain? Seems to me like it also has the upside of less flooding when it all melts at once.
Re:Researchers forecast a hard-to-imagine West – one without...
by jmann99999 on Sunday December 26, 2021 @09:20PM
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In mountain locations, rain tends to run off the ground and into rivers as it rains. This depends on the region, but happens often in Spring/Fall.
Snowmelt, when the weather warms gradually, will slowly melt. It will seep into cracks and replenish underground water sources. It will also slowly replenish rivers often into (and sometimes throughout) the Summer.
So, a gradual snowmelt helps with the water cycle.[1] If warm weather comes fast, then the benefits over rain are diminished. Then less desirable effects like flooding can happen.
[1]https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/sci...
Re:Researchers forecast a hard-to-imagine West – one without...
by ip26 on Sunday December 26, 2021 @08:57PM
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Rain flows straight down river instead of melting slowly. January rain doesn’t water August gardens.
Re:Researchers forecast a hard-to-imagine West – one without...
by ComputerGuru on Sunday December 26, 2021 @07:50PM
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Milder winters mean huge swathes of the world where certain disease-ridden and economically disastrous pests like ticks and termites are currently walled out from due to the extreme cold in the winter are suddenly going to be much worse places to live.