Our annual water cycle – the process of by which evaporation and precipitation become soil moisture, groundwater and runoff – is accelerating. During the last two water years (Oct. 1- Sept. 30), Montana’s major rivers have run through their cycles much faster than normal. Warming temperatures are causing more winter precipitation to fall as rain, which quickly runs off to our rivers and melts exis...
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