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- Why isn't Colorado's snowpack ending up in the Colorado River? https://phys.org/news/2024-08-isnt-colorado-snowpack-river-lack.html 67 comments
- Snowpack Shrinking: Alarming Trends Uncovered in 40-Year Climate Study https://scitechdaily.com/snowpack-shrinking-alarming-trends-uncovered-in-40-year-climate-study/ 2 comments climate
- B.C. oil and gas producers warned of potential water shortages from drought. Persistent drought last summer and fall in the northern part of the province continue to negatively affect streamflows and groundwater, with snowpack levels at last reading only 72 per cent of the historical average https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/weather/severe/b-c-oil-and-gas-producers-warned-of-potential-water-shortages-from-drought 3 comments environment
- River basins around the world that were once regularly snowbound are increasingly seeing their snowpack shrink due to climate change. Spring snowpack is critical for delivering a steady supply of drinking and irrigation water to billions of people, with bigger and earlier melts causing problems. https://sentinelcolorado.com/1gridhome/climate-change-is-shrinking-snowpack-in-colorado-and-the-west-study-shows-it-will-get-worse/ 12 comments science
- Snowpack is shrinking across the Northern Hemisphere https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/10/24031852/snow-loss-climate-change-drought-research 17 comments worldnews
- Pacific Northwest snowpack endangered by increasing heatwaves. When the researchers looked back at temperature records spanning from 1940 to 2021, they saw that these springtime heatwaves have doubled in frequency, intensity or both since the mid-1990s. https://news.wsu.edu/press-release/2023/12/13/pacific-northwest-snowpack-endangered-by-increasing-spring-heatwaves/ 7 comments science
- Life Was Built Around Snow. What Happens When It Vanishes? The melting of the snowpack in the high Cascades has long been a predictable source of sustenance in the Pacific Northwest. But the old patterns are changing. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/us/northwest-snowpack-climate.html 13 comments climate
- As Earth warms, a growing proportion of the globe is experiencing low snowpack levels towards the end of winter that are followed by heatwaves. A dearth of snowpack can make the air and soil ripe for heatwaves. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2022GL099925 3 comments science
- Sierra snowpack worsens, falls to lowest level in 7 years | Sierra snowpack — which provides a third of California's water supply — is at 38 percent of where it usually is this time of year. https://grist.org/extreme-weather/sierra-snowpack-worsens-falls-to-lowest-level-in-7-years/ 91 comments environment
- California's in for Summer Water Shortages After Officials Find Just 2.5 Inches of Snowpack https://gizmodo.com/californias-in-for-summer-water-shortages-after-officia-1848751901 12 comments worldnews
- California's in for Summer Water Shortages After Officials Find Just 2.5 Inches of Snowpack. The end-of-winter snowpack at Phillips Station should be 5 feet deep. https://gizmodo.com/californias-in-for-summer-water-shortages-after-officia-1848751901 88 comments environment
- Snowpack at 38% of average offers little hope for a drought rebound this year. As of Friday, the state’s reservoirs were holding about 70 percent of the typical amount of water for this time of year https://localnewsmatters.org/2022/04/05/snowpack-at-38-of-average-offers-little-hope-for-a-drought-rebound-this-year/ 11 comments environment
- After a dry start to 2022, the statewide snowpack is just 63 percent of normal for this time of year, and water officials “are sounding the alarm for a third year of severe drought” in California. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-03-01/california-drought-will-continue-after-dry-winter 3 comments environment
- I don't understand what snowpack(or a build tool) is? https://www.snowpack.dev/guides/optimize-and-bundle#option-2-optimize-plugins 6 comments reactjs
- Snowpack: An Alternative Build Tool to Webpack https://blog.bitsrc.io/snowpack-an-alternative-build-tool-to-webpack-9e8da197071d 24 comments frontend
- S2T2 GitHub/CSA template (Snowpack + Svelte + TailwindCSS + Typescript) https://ralphbliu.medium.com/s2t2-snowpack-svelte-tailwindcss-typescript-8928caa5af6c 7 comments sveltejs
- Snowpack - 5 Reasons it should be the Standard Build Tool for Front-End Web Dev https://www.derpycoder.com/snowpack-5-reasons-it-should-be-the-standard-build-tool-for-front-end-web-dev/ 14 comments sveltejs
- How to Migrate an App From Webpack to Snowpack https://primalskill.blog/how-to-migrate-an-app-from-webpack-to-snowpack 62 comments javascript
- Snowpack v3.0 - released https://www.snowpack.dev/posts/2021-01-13-snowpack-3-0 9 comments sveltejs
- Use Snowpack for ultra fast dev builds and fast refresh in existing Create React App apps https://peterbeshai.com/blog/2020-10-22-cra-snowpack/ 5 comments reactjs
- Snowpack + Svelte + SSR by Rich Harris https://github.com/Rich-Harris/snowpack-svelte-ssr 6 comments sveltejs
- The latest on web projects: Remix.run, Snowpack, Rome and Web-vitals https://juanmanuelalloron.com/2020/05/24/weekly-digest-on-remix-snowpack-rome-and-web-vitals/ 4 comments javascript
- America’s longest river was recently drier than during the Dust Bowl. And it’s bound to happen again. - Rising temperatures due to climate change dramatically reduced the snowpack that feeds the Upper Missouri River Basin https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/05/11/missouri-river-drought-climate-change/?+environment_1=&%3B+environment_1=&%3B_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_ULTswzmVNToDAGrFdH1v0vj3DkDNQheJisMeH2vqgfboOhzH8lZtQxTR12-DirJP3vp-lzOFl4mZa__eHZGeg1Lla6w&%3B_hsmi=87782018&%3Butm_campaign=Hot+News&%3Butm_content=87782018&%3Butm_medium=email&%3Butm_source=hs_email 4 comments climate
- America’s longest river was recently drier than during the Dust Bowl. And it’s bound to happen again. - Rising temperatures due to climate change dramatically reduced the snowpack that feeds the Upper Missouri River Basin https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/05/11/missouri-river-drought-climate-change/?%20environment_1&%20environment_1&_hsenc=p2anqtz-_ultswzmvntodagrfdh1v0vj3dkdnqhejismeh2vqgfboohzh8lztqxtr12-dirjp3vp-lzofl4mza__ehzgeg1lla6w&_hsmi=87782018&utm_campaign=hot%20news&utm_content=87782018&utm_medium=email&utm_source=hs_email 672 comments science
- Rising temperatures, shorter winters and a declining snowpack are impacting Aspen’s snow-dependent culture https://waterdesk.org/2020/02/aspen-snowpack-climate-change 5 comments environment
- Snowpack: Build web applications with less tooling and 10x faster iteration https://www.snowpack.dev 25 comments javascript
- Dust is causing Utah's snowpack to melt faster, says new University of Utah study. https://unews.utah.edu/dust-on-snow-gsl/ 6 comments science
- Climate change is shrinking the Colorado River. March of 2017 was the warmest March in Colorado history, with temperatures 8.8°F above normal. Snowpack and expected runoff declined substantially in the face of this record warmth. https://theconversation.com/climate-change-is-shrinking-the-colorado-river-76280 4 comments science
- Anthropogenic climate change is accelerating snowpack loss in the western United States, and will result in less future water availability https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14996 18 comments science
- Sierra Snowpack Bigger Than Last Four Years Combined: NASA https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2017-109&rn=news.xml&rst=6815 6 comments space
- Sierra Nevada snowpack not likely to recover from drought until 2019 http://phys.org/news/2016-06-sierra-nevada-snowpack-recover-drought.html 21 comments science
- Global Warming Could Reduce Snowpack, Cutting Off Major Water Supplies Across The Planet http://www.hngn.com/articles/150628/20151115/global-warming-reduce-snowpack-cutting-major-water-supplies-planet.htm 6 comments science
- Declining snowpack could threaten 1.9bn people with water shortages - As many as 68 of the basins could see snowmelt diminish until it no longer meets water supply needs by 2060, the paper says – even if demand doesn’t go up. http://www.carbonbrief.org/declining-snowpack-could-threaten-1-9bn-people-with-water-shortages 3 comments worldnews
- California's drought-stricken mountains reach lowest level of snow in 500 years. The Sierra Nevada mountains are at 5% of their historical snowpack average, according to new study in Nature Climate Change. http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a17323/californias-sierra-nevada-mountains-snowpack/ 866 comments science
- California Sees Dire, Record Low Snowpack http://www.climatecentral.org/news/california-snowpack-obliterates-record-low-18847 3 comments science
- California restricts water as snowpack survey finds 'no snow whatsoever' http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/01/california-governor-orders-mandatory-water-restrictions-drought 51 comments politics
- Snowpack atop Arctic sea ice has dwindled since 1950s, study says. Declining by more than a third in the western Arctic and by more than half in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas http://www.adn.com/article/20140816/snowpack-atop-arctic-sea-ice-has-dwindled-1950s-study-says 6 comments science
- Amazonian deforestation may lead to 50% reduction in Sierra Nevada snowpack and reduced rainfall in the Pacific NW - new modeling work out of Princeton and published in Journal of Climate this week http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/s38/31/66m12/index.xml?section=topstories 410 comments science
- "In the history of Pyrenees skiing, there have never been slopes open in June," he said. Charre said the snowpack averaged 80 centimeters (31 inches) in the areas open this weekend. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/e/eu_france_skiing_in_june?site=ripaw&section=home&template=default&utm_source=feedly 12 comments worldnews
- Air pollution from cars and coal-fired power plants now melting snowpack quicker, causing water shortages and contamination http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/01/28/air-pollution-now-melting-snowpack-quicker-study-shows/ 2 comments science