January 12, 2016--California drought: How will we know when it's over?...
Now that 2016 has gotten off to a wet start, with a series of El Niño storms drenching California in recent days, the question is turning up with increasing frequency at dinner parties and coffee...
View ArticleJanuary 20, 2016--Cloud seeding helps boost El Niño (Durango Herald)
El Niño is bringing Southwest Colorado wet storms and even more reason to seed clouds than in a dry winter, some experts say. “When there’s lots of liquid water coming through, then you have a storm to...
View ArticleJanuary 23, 2016--Despite El Niño, BuRec predicts average year (Montrose Press)
El Niño has showered its bounty on the region, particularly the Four Corners area south of Montrose.read more
View ArticleJanuary 29, 2016--Even torrential rain brought by El Niño may not end...
Stillness pervades the South Los Angeles Wetland Park. A turtle floats by, undisturbed by lunch hour at the high school opposite. Tall bulrushes bend around the pool at the centre of the nine-acre (3.6...
View ArticleMarch 10, 2016--El Nino and the Colorado (Boulder Weekly)
Water levels and rainfall for the Colorado River basin were below-average in January and February, and will remain so until at least July 2016, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation....
View ArticleMarch 19, 2016--El Niño upsets seasons and upends lives worldwide (New York...
In rural villages in Africa and Asia, and in urban neighborhoods in South America, millions of lives have been disrupted by weather linked to the strongest El Niño in a generation. In some parts of the...
View ArticleApril 8, 2016--March dry spell takes toll on Southwest Colorado snowpack...
Though Southwest Colorado has yet to reap the benefits of a wet El Niño, as of April 1, statewide snowpack totals are up 150 percent from last year, according to the National Resource Conservation...
View ArticleApril 21, 2016--Who's to blame for faulty local El Niño predictions? (Los...
A rainy season that began with much El Niño-fueled promise is speeding to a dry and disappointing end.read more
View ArticleMay 12, 2016--Sixteen years of drought in the Colorado River Basin: Reality...
I was recently reading an article on the negotiations among the Lower Basin states concerning their use of Colorado River water when I came across this phrase: “after 16 years of drought.” It’s a...
View ArticleMay 16, 2016--April breaks global temperature record, marking seven months of...
Last month was the hottest April on record globally – and the seventh month in a row to have broken global temperature records. The latest figures smashed the previous record for April by the largest...
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