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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed May 11, 2022, 11:50 AM May 2022

Colorado's snowpack is melting at a "ridiculous" rate [View all]

Colorado didn’t see enough snow this winter to fully recover from the ongoing megadrought and now what snow the state did see is melting too quickly, experts say.

“If we continue on at the rate we’re at we’re looking at probably a complete meltout by the end of May or beginning of June,” Becky Bolinger, of the Colorado Climate Center, told The Denver Post.

That’s too soon. By several weeks, she said. So drought conditions are likely to worsen, exacerbating what officials are anticipating could be the worst wildfire year in Colorado’s history.

Already fire restrictions appear to be more common than normal. And experts have questioned whether Colorado is prepared for another devastating wildfire like the Marshall Fire, which burned through a record number of homes and businesses in December.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/colorado-s-snowpack-is-melting-at-a-ridiculous-rate/ar-AAX6Yfx

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I don't want to live through another summer gldstwmn May 2022 #1
Direr and direr? czarjak May 2022 #2
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