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As snow hydrologists fan across the western U.S. to measure peak snowpack this spring, citizen scientist Billy Barr will be measuring snow — as always — at 9,500 feet outside his cabin in the remote mountain town of Gothic in central Colorado. This is Barr's 50th year logging snowfall amounts there.
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The wet season got off to a weak start in the Mountain West, but federal officials say recent winter storms have helped strengthen some snowpacks.
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Silver iodide has been the dominant ingredient for cloud seeding in the West, but it doesn't work so well in warm temperatures.
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Wednesday's study in the journal Nature finds a key threshold for the future of snowpacks in the Northern Hemisphere: 17.6 degrees. In places where the winter averages colder than that, often the snowpack survives because it's cold enough. But areas warmer than 17.6 degrees for a winter average, like the Upper Colorado River basin, tend to see their winter wonderland dreams melt.
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El Niño conditions are expected to bring good snow to Colorado and the Southern Rockies, but conditions may not be as ideal to the north.
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A new study from Portland State University suggests that some of the Mountain West’s glaciers do not qualify as glaciers anymore due to their size and lack of movement.
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New research is showing that fall snowfall can be a good predictor of what the rest of the season will look like.
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The Rocky Mountains are likely to see an El Niño winter. Here’s what that could mean for ski season.Above-average ocean temperatures point to stronger winter conditions in central and southern mountain areas. But nothing is guaranteed.
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The Fort Collins Coloradoan reporter Miles Blumhardt joined us to talk about some of the latest environmental news.
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The Colorado Sun Reporter Michael Booth joined KUNC Host Desmond O'Boyle to discuss record ski resort visits last winter and the state of computers in Colorado’s public schools.