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Subscribe to RSSDon't call it a drought (yet). But don't call it a snow-heavy winter, either.
Snowpack levels in the Sierra mountains -- a key indicator in determining how much water will be available to Central Valley farmers and municipal water users alike -- are at 30 percent of normal, according to reports, which spells setback for natural resources in 2012.
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Already, farmers have been informed that they'll get around half of the water they've requested, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Reservoirs are at 110 percent of normal, according to the newspaper, thanks to last year's wet winter.
The snowpack has another month to improve: April 1 is when the snowpack is at its peak, and when state water-watchers can determine exactly what they can promise to farmers in the hot and dry Central Valley.
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It seems like we skipped winter entirely this year in California.
IN mississippi also.
It's been warm most places. I recently remarked to someone in Central Maryland how seldom I've had to rush to my car, all bundled up and shivering, during this Winter's evenings. Tomorrow I'm going to take a one-hour bicycle ride wearing a flannel shirt and no jacket in 60+F sunny weather - typical February highs are from the 20's to the low 40's here.
What is better, global warming or global cooling? We can't have it both ways and history teaches us that nothing will remain the same forever.