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“Thanks to a blizzard-filled winter and an unusually cold and wet spring, more than 90 measuring sites from Montana to New Mexico and California to Colorado have record snowpack totals on the ground for late May," says this article in the New York Times. Officials worry that "those giant and spectacularly beautiful snowpacks will now melt under the hotter, sunnier skies of June ... wildly and perhaps catastrophically." "Fear of a sudden thaw, releasing millions of gallons of water through river channels and narrow canyons, has disaster experts on edge."
See entire NYT article
and great photo:
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