BoltonBullfinch wrote: ↑Mon Aug 01, 2022 7:55 pm
On the same note, for anyone who has not seen it, take a look at lake mead in the USA, thats at a scary level.
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BB
It is scary. The Colorado River here in Colorado is doing just fine, but as it travels the water from the river gets pulled by farmers for irrigation and this year they are irrigating more because of the drought.
Where the Colorado River starts it had normal snowpack for the winter, but on the way through the Western Slope and through Utah, snow wasn't as much. This has been going on for a few years. Where I live, we seem to be getting our snow late in the season, actually in early Spring. It's like Mother Nature is making up for no snow during the winter. So with less snow on the west side of Colorado and Utah, along with the farmers irrigating more often these past years, Lake Mead is in terrible shape. It's a deep lake, and now they are finding things like cars at the bottom of it.
This huge lake is almost gone and the weather needs to change so it gets the water from the snow that it needs to refill itself. It's just getting hotter here and more humid. We are considered a dry state, but with the migration to Colorado that's been going on for the last few years, we are getting more humid because people with new houses watering their lawns. As a kid, 13% humidity was a high humid day. And when the sun set it got cooler instantly. It used to get into the 50's F. at night, but these days, I have seen it at 4am 65*F or more. That's not good.
Many rivers on the Western Slope have gone into fishing regulations to fish either early in the day or late in the evening because the water is getting too warm for the trout.
It's happening all over the world and I'm afraid it's too late to do anything about it.
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