Downright dismal images of the Western drought, a record-setter in California

[jakeXT]

5. California is turning brown and you can see it from space. Look at the difference between June 2011 and June 2014 in the animation of NASA images below. Note the dwindling snowpack, as well. Sierra Nevada snowpack was just 18 percent of normal this spring.




10. A symbolic measuring stick for water in the West, Lake Mead (in Nevada), is drying up. Only 39 percent full, it recently reached its lowest level since 1937. NASA satellite imagery shows change in water level from June 2013 to July 2014 (animation below):


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/08/01/downright-dismal-images-of-the-western-drought-a-record-setter-in-california/

[Garthem]

1. But, but it's just cyclical. No climate change to see here. Move along!