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Scientists link the West’s extreme snow drought to climate change
Researchers found the winter snow drought was more than 4 times likelier in a warming climate, according to a study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Bare ground flanked the edges of ski runs. It rained in December. Flower beds never went dormant. Snow plows sat gathering rust. As these conditions took hold across Greater Yellowstone and the West last winter, Marianne Cowherd, a snow scientist at Montana State University, was hit with question after question. “People around me would ask if the snow was so bad because of climate change, and I would find myself having to answer, ‘Probably?’” C…