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It's already been a very record-breaking hot year

By freak80   Follow   Mon, 9 Apr 2012, 2:20pm   631 views   2 comments
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From Yahoo! news and AP:
http://news.yahoo.com/already-very-record-breaking-hot-070315035.html

Here in upstate NY we didn't even have a real winter this year. And then we had over a week in the 70s and 80s for highs. Stuff is blooming and budding over a month earlier than usual.

I can't help but enjoy the warm weather here and lack of winter, but I pity those folks living in more climate-sensitive areas. For you CA folks it means less fresh water stored in the sierra snowpack. And probably more summer wildfires too.

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1. Vicente Follow Befriend (8) 204 threads 4,415 comments Davis, CA

   1   2:41pm Mon 9 Apr 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Last year up at Echo Lake (near Tahoe) there was 18 feet of snow. Up there a month or so ago and there was only a few feet. Water in the Central Valley for crops may be a problem.

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   2   5:18pm Mon 9 Apr 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Californians have fought about water for a century, while desalination has become much better and cheaper. Some of the coastal cities have started using desalinated seawater, and more should follow: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120053698876396483.html?mod=googlenews_wsj That would leave aquifer water for farms and river water for fish. (The Grand Coulee Dam on the Olympia River also supplies irrigation for farming. Unfortunately they didn't figure out a way to take care of the salmon run.)