How Is our climate affecting California? |
California's currently in its fourth year of severe drought. California's 2015 and 2014 Water Years, which ended September 30, 2015 were the warmest years on record. California’s climate varies tremendously, from temperate rainforests on the North Coast to the extreme aridity of Death Valley. Conditions now are so dry that all of the state is considered to be in a drought. More than 80 percent of the state is in extreme or exceptional drought, according to the United States Drought Monitor.
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how is our climate affecting Nevada? |
In Nevada, drought tightens its grip daily. Three years of dismal winters and hot summers are taking their toll across a normally arid but now exceedingly dry landscape, with western Nevada rated by experts as being in extreme or exceptional drought. Water supplies are decrease. For the first time in 20 years, Truckee River flows are expected by early August to drop to such levels that the major water provider serving the Truckee Meadows will need to tap reserve supplies.
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