The Western Snowpack is 137% of normal

Skiing on Southern California's Mt. Baldy, May 3rd 2010 - Image: The Ski Channel

From The Declining Spring Snowcover Department

Experts tell us that spring snowcover has seen rapid declines in the Northern Hemisphere over the last 20 years. As of today, western US snowpack averaged by state is 137 percent of normal.

According to USDA Snotel measurements, Arizona is 446% of normal. California is 131% of normal. New Mexico is 184% of normal. Nevada is 126% of normal. Montana is 104% of normal.

Lake Powell water levels have risen four feet in the last month and are 56 feet higher than they were on this date in 2005.

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Salt Lake City just had its latest spring snow on record. Mammoth is expecting a big Memorial Day snow storm.

The Obama administration (42% approval) forecasts heat and drought for the western US. Let’s see how they are doing!

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Apparently Arnie’s efforts to stop global warming have been successful.

Schwarzenegger has emerged as a national leader on global warming, the one whose name most frequently comes up in foreign capitals when international cooperation on reducing carbon emissions is discussed. Al Gore might have a Nobel Prize, but Schwarzenegger heads a state that, if it were a country, would rank among the 10 biggest economies in the world. Given the Bush administration’s unwillingness to seriously address the problem, Schwarzenegger’s initiatives to mandate hard emissions targets and set up carbon-trading schemes with other states and Canadian provinces make him this country’s most forward-thinking governor, and its greenest Republican.